# Gangnam Severance Hospital

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## TL;DR

A Yonsei University hospital in the Gangnam district of Seoul, with its own cancer hospital. It is a sister hospital of Severance Hospital in the same university health system.

## Summary

Gangnam Severance Hospital was opened in 1983 by Yonsei University Health System in Gangnam, Seoul, and is one of the system's hospitals alongside Severance Hospital, Yonsei Cancer Hospital and Yongin Severance Hospital; it runs the Gangnam Severance Cancer Hospital within it. The hospital's overview lists among its work the clinical introduction of an anticancer drug-eluting biliary stent, early gastric cancer diagnosis assisted by artificial intelligence, hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy after cytoreductive surgery for stage IV colorectal cancer, intraoperative radiotherapy during surgery for breast, colorectal and pancreatic cancers, and more than 3,000 robot-assisted da Vinci operations. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 192.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: 강남세브란스병원; Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei University; Gangnam Severance Cancer Hospital
- City: Seoul, KR
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://gs.severance.healthcare/gs-en/index.do

## Sources

- Gangnam Severance Hospital: overview: https://gs.severance.healthcare/gs-en/about/overview.do
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 192 (Gangnam Severance Hospital - Yonsei University, Seoul): https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology
- Gangnam Severance Cancer Hospital: https://gs-cancer.severance.healthcare/gs-cancer-en/

## Connected records

- institutions: [Severance Hospital, Yonsei University](https://onco.cc/institutions/severance/)
- collections: [Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology](https://onco.cc/collections/newsweek-hospitals/)

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