# University Hospitals Birmingham / University of Birmingham Cancer Research Centre

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## TL;DR

Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital is the West Midlands' cancer centre, with one of the UK's largest stem cell transplant programmes; the university's Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit ran POUT in upper-tract urothelial cancer and FOxTROT in colon cancer, plus paediatric leukaemia trials.

## Summary

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham is the tertiary cancer centre for the West Midlands, with one of the largest stem cell transplant programmes in the UK and a regional CAR-T service. The University of Birmingham's Cancer Research UK Clinical Trials Unit has run practice-defining trials such as POUT (adjuvant chemotherapy in upper-tract urothelial cancer), FOxTROT with Leeds, and numerous paediatric and leukaemia trials for the UK's children's cancer groups. The Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences studies Epstein-Barr virus-driven cancers, lymphoma biology and cancer inflammation, and Birmingham Children's Hospital is a principal treatment centre. The city hosts a CRUK Centre and the Birmingham Health Partners academic health science system.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham; CRUK Clinical Trials Unit Birmingham; Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences
- City: Birmingham, GB
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/services/cancer

## Sources

- UHB cancer services: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/services/cancer
- CRUK Clinical Trials Unit: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/crctu

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Bladder & urothelial cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/urothelial/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Gallbladder cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/gallbladder/), [Hodgkin lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hodgkin-lymphoma/), [Lung cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/lung-cancer/), [Merkel cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/merkel-cell-carcinoma/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/), [Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/), [Rectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/rectal-cancer/), [Skin cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/skin-cancer/)
- fronts: [Cell Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/cell-therapy/), [Chemotherapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/chemotherapy/)
- technologies: [Allogeneic (off-the-shelf) cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/allogeneic-cell-therapy/), [CAR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/car-t/), [Cytotoxic chemotherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/cytotoxic-chemotherapy/)
- institutions: [AMMF, the Cholangiocarcinoma Charity](https://onco.cc/institutions/ammf/), [Cancer Research UK](https://onco.cc/institutions/cruk/), [Leeds Cancer Centre, St James's University Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/leeds-cancer-centre/), [West Midlands Cancer Alliance](https://onco.cc/institutions/west-midlands-cancer-alliance/)
- terms: [Neoadjuvant / adjuvant / perioperative](https://onco.cc/terms/neoadjuvant-adjuvant/)
- trials: [FOxTROT](https://onco.cc/trials/foxtrot/), [National Lung Matrix Trial](https://onco.cc/trials/national-lung-matrix-trial/), [New EPOC](https://onco.cc/trials/new-epoc/), [Precision-Panc](https://onco.cc/trials/precision-panc/), [Rational treatment selection for Merkel cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/trials/mcc-rational-treatment/), [STAR-TREC](https://onco.cc/trials/star-trec/), [VIOLET](https://onco.cc/trials/violet/)
- people: [Dion Morton](https://onco.cc/people/dion-morton/), [Gary Middleton](https://onco.cc/people/gary-middleton/), [Hisham Mehanna](https://onco.cc/people/hisham-mehanna/), [Jonathan Brotherton](https://onco.cc/people/jonathan-brotherton/)
- bottlenecks: [Trial design, endpoints and cost](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-trial-design/)
- collections: [UK specialist HPB cancer centres](https://onco.cc/collections/uk-hpb-specialist-centres/)

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