Institute of Cancer of São Paulo or is located in the city of

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, Brazil. Is the largest

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of Brazil and

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. Founded in 2008, the institute has 580 beds, 19 elevators (21 persons each), 28 floors, 120 medical consulting rooms, 1.3 thousand surgeries/month, 6 thousand sessions of chemotherapy/month, 420 sessions of radiotherapy/month.

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