Overview
- Hospital data show 432 new cancer cases in the last year, with more than 1,800 patients registered for treatment, recent diagnoses or palliative care.
- Only three oncology specialists are on staff and the service operates just two days per week, constraining timely access to care.
- Cervical, gastric and breast cancers are the most frequently diagnosed, with many gastric cases arriving at stages III–IV that often require palliative management.
- The unit has added a medication preparation area and a chemotherapy room, yet limited budgets and personnel continue to block service expansion and early detection.
- A congressional oversight visit reported an obsolete lone mammography unit and a lack of specialists, urging funding to curb referrals to Huancayo and Lima that many patients cannot sustain.