# Asan Medical Center

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## TL;DR

Asan Medical Center is Korea's largest hospital and a global leader in liver transplantation and gastric cancer surgery.

## Summary

Asan Medical Center in Seoul is Korea's largest hospital and ranks fourth in the Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals list for oncology. It is known for the highest-volume living-donor liver transplant programme in the world, led by Sung-Gyu Lee, and for gastric cancer surgery, which makes it a natural major site for hepatocellular carcinoma, biliary tract and gastric cancer trials. OnCo links it to liver transplantation for cancer within and beyond the Milan criteria, to the Korean Cancer Study Group, and to oncologists including Min-Hee Ryu and Dae Ho Lee. Whether its transplant outcomes can be reproduced by lower-volume centres is the question its data invite. Its liver and gastric programmes are the reason to read this page.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-04
- City: Seoul, KR
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://eng.amc.seoul.kr

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asan_Medical_Center
- Official website: https://eng.amc.seoul.kr

## Connected records

- cancers: [Biliary tract cancer (cholangiocarcinoma)](https://onco.cc/cancers/cholangiocarcinoma/), [Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/gastric/), [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/)
- people: [Dae Ho Lee](https://onco.cc/people/lee-dae-ho/), [Jae Lyun Lee](https://onco.cc/people/lee-jae-lyun/), [Min-Hee Ryu](https://onco.cc/people/ryu-min-hee/), [Sung-Bae Kim](https://onco.cc/people/kim-sung-bae/), [Sung-Gyu Lee](https://onco.cc/people/lee-sung-gyu/), [Tae Won Kim](https://onco.cc/people/kim-tae-won/), [Yoon-Koo Kang](https://onco.cc/people/kang-yoon-koo/)
- technologies: [Liver transplantation for cancer (Milan criteria and beyond)](https://onco.cc/technologies/liver-transplant-oncology/)
- trials: [DEBATE](https://onco.cc/trials/debate/), [NIFTY](https://onco.cc/trials/nifty/)
- companies: [Korean Cancer Study Group](https://onco.cc/companies/kcsg/)

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