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Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas
Peru's national cancer institute, the largest cancer hospital in the Andean region and the coordinator of Peru's national cancer plan and registry.
Also called: INENINEN Peru
Overview
INEN was founded in Lima in 1939 as the Instituto Nacional del Cáncer and is Peru's national cancer institute and its largest oncology hospital, treating patients from across the country and coordinating the Plan Esperanza national cancer plan, the Lima metropolitan cancer registry and the network of regional cancer institutes in Trujillo, Arequipa and Concepción. It provides surgical, medical, radiation and paediatric oncology, nuclear medicine and bone marrow transplant, and its research department leads Latin American work on gastric cancer (Peru has among the region's highest rates), cervical cancer screening and HPV self-sampling, paediatric leukaemia outcomes, and clinical trials in breast and lung cancer, and it trains most Peruvian oncologists.
Location
Lima, PE
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#268 · 24 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 24 from 12 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-15.
Matched to Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplásicas, including child institutions. 149 works · 1,000 citations · 69% open access · 9% clinical trials · 1% reviews.
Oncology works per year
422022
302023
302024
252025
222026
Most works
- Henry Gómez18 works
- Tatiana Vidaurre14 works
- Henry Gómez14 works
- Silvia P. Neciosup13 works
- Gabriel De la Cruz Ku13 works
- Kátia Roque13 works
- Zaida Morante10 works
- Gonzalo Ziegler‐Rodriguez9 works
- Mahmut Gümüş8 works
- Rossana Ruiz8 works
Most cited
- National cancer plan (Plan Esperanza)
- Lima cancer registry
- Gastric and cervical cancer research
- Paediatric oncology
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