# Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital

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## TL;DR

A public university hospital in Hwasun, South Jeolla, run by Chonnam National University, that opened in 2004 around a cancer centre. It has separate centres for each main type of cancer, including children's cancers and blood cancers.

## Summary

Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital is one of the hospitals of the Chonnam National University Hospital group in South Jeolla Province, South Korea. Its director's welcome page says it opened in 2004 as a specialist hospital built around five centres including a cancer centre, describes it as a public medical institution and a research-oriented hospital, and places it at the centre of the Hwasun biomedical cluster. Its cancer division (암진료부) lists centres for liver, thyroid, musculoskeletal, brain and spine, colorectal, head and neck, gynaecological, urological, childhood and adolescent, oesophageal, gastric, breast, pancreatobiliary, lung, skin and blood cancers, and a cancer immunotherapy centre, with departments of medical oncology, haematology, radiation oncology and nuclear medicine; the site also links the Gwangju-Jeonnam Regional Cancer Center and a clinical trial centre. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 140, printed as Chonnam National University - Hwasun Hospital.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: 화순전남대학교병원; CNUHH; Chonnam National University - Hwasun Hospital
- City: Hwasun, KR
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.cnuhh.com

## Sources

- Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital (Korean): https://www.cnuhh.com
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 140 (Chonnam National University - Hwasun Hospital, Hwasun): https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology
- Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital: director's welcome (Korean): https://www.cnuhh.com/sub.cs?m=52
- Chonnam National University Hwasun Hospital (English): https://www.cnuhh.com/cnuhh_eng/main.cs

## Connected records

- collections: [Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology](https://onco.cc/collections/newsweek-hospitals/)

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