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Kuwait's public cancer centre, founded in 1968, with surgery, oncology and radiotherapy. In 2026 the Ministry of Health created a cancer registry department inside it to build a national cancer database.
The Arab Times reported in April 2024 that the centre was established in 1968, has specialised surgery, oncology and diagnostic radiology units and a staff of over 600, and that the Minister of Health had announced a new centre building in the Al-Sabah Health District. In October 2025 the ministry opened a gynaecological oncology unit at the centre, and in December 2025 the minister met its board on moving to the new building and on a memorandum of understanding with Gustave Roussy (Arab Times). On 31 August 2026 KUNA reported a ministerial decision establishing an Epidemiology and Cancer Registry Department at the centre to build a national database on cancer incidence, mortality and survival. IAEA DIRAC, read on 11 November 2026 with the entry last updated in 2021, lists the centre in Shuwaikh with four linear accelerators and a brachytherapy unit. Its website did not resolve.
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