Fundación Peruana de Cáncer
San Borja, Peru
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Fundación Peruana de Cáncer is a charity based in San Borja, Peru working on health, medical research, education.
The Fundación Peruana de Cáncer is a non-profit organisation founded to support cancer patients in Peru. It provides free comprehensive assistance to low-income patients, including lodging, meals, transport, psychological and social support, and medicines. It also runs cancer prevention and early detection campaigns with public and private partners, funds scholarships for health professionals to train abroad, funds cancer research programmes, and donates medical equipment to the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases (INEN) and other public oncology hospitals. Its stated goal is to raise standards of cancer care and access to early diagnosis and quality treatment across Peru.
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Albergue Frieda Heller
Health · Peru
Provides free comprehensive assistance to low-income cancer patients from across Peru, including lodging, meals, transport, social and psychological support, treatment follow-up, medicines and examinations.
Becas para médicos y profesionales de la salud
Education · Peru
Scholarships for public health doctors and professionals to specialise at leading hospitals abroad and update cancer treatment skills.
Programas de prevención y despistaje
Health · Peru
Cancer prevention and early detection campaigns run with public and private partners to raise awareness of early diagnosis.
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