# Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital

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## TL;DR

Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital is the referral cancer centre for southern Vietnam and one of the busiest cancer hospitals in South-east Asia; it opened a second campus in Thu Duc in 2020 to relieve overcrowding and runs the city's population-based cancer registry.

## Summary

Ho Chi Minh City Oncology Hospital is the referral cancer centre for southern Vietnam and one of the highest-volume cancer hospitals in the region, serving patients from the Mekong Delta and central highlands. It opened a large second campus in Thu Duc in 2020 to relieve severe overcrowding, provides surgical, medical and radiation oncology, nuclear medicine and paediatric oncology, runs the Ho Chi Minh City population-based cancer registry, and trains oncologists for the southern provinces. The hospital collaborates internationally on breast, cervical, liver and nasopharyngeal cancer studies and radiotherapy capacity building, and is expanding trial participation.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Bệnh viện Ung Bướu TP.HCM; HCMC Oncology Hospital
- City: Ho Chi Minh City, VN
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://benhvienungbuou.vn

## Sources

- HCMC Oncology Hospital: https://benhvienungbuou.vn

## Connected records

- technologies: [Brachytherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/), [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/), [Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries](https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/), [IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)](https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/)
- cancers: [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/), [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/)
- fronts: [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- institutions: [Vietnam National Cancer Hospital (K Hospital)](https://onco.cc/institutions/k-hospital-hanoi/)
- people: [Diệp Bảo Tuấn](https://onco.cc/people/diep-bao-tuan/)

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