The Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil, also known as the Instituto Português de Oncologia (I.P.O.),

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for Portuguese Oncology Institute, is a state-run

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

hospital and research organization in

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. The I.P.O. has autonomous regional branches in

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

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and

Coimbra Coimbra (, also , , or ) is a city and a municipality in Portugal. The population of the municipality at the 2011 census was 143,397, in an area of . The fourth-largest urban area in Portugal after Lisbon, Porto Metropolitan Area, Porto, and Bra ...

History

The Francisco Gentil Portuguese Institute of Oncology was created on December 29th, 1923, as the Portuguese Institute for the Study of Cancer (IPEC), by decree 9333. It had, at this time, provisional headquarters at the Hospital de Santa Marta in Lisbon. Four years later, in 1927, the first IPO pavilion was inaugurated, designated Pavilion A, which was located in Palhavã, Lisbon. The 7-hectare site on which it is located was acquired that same year with funds provided by the Compulsory Social Insurance Institute. In accordance with what Dr. Francisco Gentil (one of the driving forces behind the creation of the IPO) had projected, Pavilion A was equipped with a Laboratory for Isotope Research for Medical Applications, after the donation of funds by the patient Abílio Lopes do Rego (who gave his name to the laboratory). More recently and according to the demands of evolution, this space gave way to the current Nuclear Medicine Laboratory.IPOLFG - História
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IPO Coimbra

IPO Lisbon

IPO Porto
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