Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro
Published 5 November 2026, 23:09
Liga Portuguesa Contra o Cancro (Portuguese League Against Cancer)
A non-profit organisation with branches around the country: it drives patients to treatment, provides financial and material help, runs accommodation for patients from out of town and offers free screening for skin, breast and bowel cancer. Some screening is mobile: at local festivals, races and shopping centres.
Where you come across it. Notices about free screening in your municipality; help during treatment.
The League is not a state service and does not make diagnoses: at a screening you will be told whether you need to see a doctor, and for that you still have to go to a Centro de Saúde or a hospital.
Official website: ligacontracancro.pt