Established in 1923, Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil (IPO Lisboa) is a reference hospital for the treatment, education and research in the field of Oncology.
IPO Lisboa is the main cancer centre in the South of the country. It receives one fourth of the cancer patients in its area of influence – Greater Lisbon Region, Ribatejo, Alentejo, Algarve and the Autonomous Regions of Azores and Madeira, which covers a population of nearly five million inhabitants.
IPO Lisboa is a National Health Service (SNS) public hospital, which provides highly specialized health care and enjoys great social, medical, technical, academic and scientific prestige capital. It is very much cherished by patients and their family members, who highlight and value the humanist provision of health care, which is the unique brand of this institution.
IPO Lisboa in figures
With about 2.000 professionals – including 360 doctors, 620 nurses, 260 healthcare technicians – in 2022 IPO Lisboa had 269 beds available and treated nearly 60 thousand patients each year.
In 2022, the Institute welcomed 11.224 new patients, held 310.574 medical and 134.514 non-medical appointments, and performed 7.434 surgeries. In the area of bone marrow transplantation, the hospital performed 67 autologous, 36 allogeneic, 6 Car-T cells and 3 DLI (Donor Lymphocyte Infusion) transplant procedures. In addition to these figures, 71.986 radiotherapy treatments, 41.207 chemotherapy sessions, 7.434 nuclear medicine exams, 98.915 radiology exams, 34.144 day hospital sessions were carried out and 3.229 households were visited.
In 2022, the paediatric department of IPO Lisboa registered 196 new cases of childhood cancer and kept monitoring 1.339 throughout the year.
In the research field (clinical and translational), IPO Lisboa has various ongoing programs in priority oncology areas, such as aggressive tumours and familial cancer. In 2022, it promoted 256 projects, including 189 observational studies and 67 clinical trials.
Patients’ referral to IPO Lisboa is carried out mainly through health centres and public and private hospitals, within its area of influence. However, due to the human resources, available techniques and technologies' high degree of specialization and differentiation, patients of all regions of the country, are referred and treated in the Institute, when it comes to more complex medical conditions and rare tumours.
IPO Lisboa also guarantees the principle of free choice and movement of patients, according to the rules in force with NHS and the average response times.
Certified hospital
Following the setting up of Reference Centres (RC) by the Ministry of Health (MH), IPO Lisboa is the RC for paediatric oncology and oesophageal, testicular, rectal, anal canal cancers and sarcomas of the soft parts and bones, in the field of adults' oncology.
The accreditation of the RC's is an ongoing process. IPO Lisboa fulfils the required conditions to become a RC in other oncological diseases, and it is waiting only for the MH to open the respective applications.
IPO is also certified by Agencia de Calidad Sanitaria de Andalucia, according to the model adopted by the MH for health services accreditation.
At an international level, the Institute is accredited by Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI) as a Clinical Cancer Centre, and European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) as an Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care Centre.
IPO Lisboa is also certified by the European reference networks such as European Reference Network Paediatric Cancer (PaedCan ERN) and European Network for Rare Adult Solid Cancer (EURACAN), regarding some of the adults' pathologies.
Investments
Last years' investments have allowed to care for and to treat more patients; to revitalize all admission areas; to extend and renovate the Paediatric Day Hospital, Operating Room, Bone Marrow Transplant Unit, Imunohemotherapy Department and to keep on the technological equipping of Radiotherapy, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Pathology, molecular diagnostics laboratories and endoscopic techniques units.
Among the investments for 2023, we highlight the renovation of the Adults Day Hospital and of the Pathological Anatomy Laboratory. The works of the project for a new outpatient consultations building, near Praça de Espanha, are underway.
Our committment
IPO Lisboa aims at being at the forefront of medical and scientific knowledge and to keep on being NHS reference model with health care provision, undergraduate and post-graduate education and research in the oncology field.
We aim at creating more value, respecting the patients' rights and according to scientific, humanization, motivation and belonging principles for the citizens and the professionals.
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Source: CI, PACG, 12/10/2023