Kyoto University Cancer Center consists of 5 divisions “Outpatient Cancer Care Division”, “Inpatient Cancer Care Division”, “Supportive Care Division”, “Cancer Education and Training Division” and “Cancer Treatment Innovation Division”, and the Palliative Care Center. Medical staff from multiple medical departments and divisions participate in each division and work together in coordination enabling multimodality cancer treatment, clinical innovation, education, and training. To overcome “Cancer”, we have established a general hospital with high-quality medical care system to give back to the society by providing standard treatment based on evidence, and also apply the results of important fundamental research conducted at our university to clinical practice. As a university hospital cancer center, the Kyoto University Cancer Center has the following significant characteristics:
- In outpatient care, information is shared across departments through “Organ-specific cancer units”, and the treatment policy is determined objectively and promptly.
- As a general hospital, we meticulously deal with comorbidities and side effects caused by cancer treatment.
- As a university, we work on developing top-level research technologies for the medical department and new treatment technologies in collaboration with other departments.
- We nurture many cancer specialists and cancer professionals through integrated education at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
- We provide specialized palliative care.