# Kantonsspital St.Gallen

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## TL;DR

The main hospital of the eastern Swiss health group HOCH Health Ostschweiz, in St. Gallen. Its Comprehensive Cancer Centre brings specialists together in tumour boards to plan each patient's diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.

## Summary

The Kantonsspital St.Gallen is the St. Gallen site of HOCH Health Ostschweiz, which also runs hospitals in Grabs, Linth and Wil and outpatient centres. The site page describes it as a university teaching and research hospital that provides basic care for the city and specialised centre services for the canton and parts of neighbouring cantons. HOCH says more than 300 scientific papers are published and more than 200 clinical trials are under way across the group each year.

Its Comprehensive Cancer Centre pools specialists from clinics, institutes and outside partners, who discuss each case in tumour boards. The services it lists include interdisciplinary clinics for gynaecological, lung, neuro-, dermato-, head and neck, uro- and visceral surgical oncology, sarcoma, tumour pain and palliative care, care for the common solid cancers and for leukaemias, lymphoma and GIST, liver tumour surgery, and genetic counselling for familial breast and gynaecological cancer and Lynch syndrome. It hosts the annual St.Galler Fortbildung Klinische Onkologie, in its 37th edition in 2027. Newsweek and Statista rank it 230th in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, under the name Kantonsspital St.Gallen / Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen; KSSG; Comprehensive Cancer Centre St.Gallen; HOCH Health Ostschweiz
- City: St. Gallen, CH
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.h-och.ch/comprehensive-cancer-centre/

## Sources

- Kantonsspital St.Gallen: Comprehensive Cancer Centre: https://www.h-och.ch/comprehensive-cancer-centre/
- Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 230 (Kantonsspital St.Gallen / Comprehensive Cancer Centre, St. Gallen): https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology
- Comprehensive Cancer Centre: services: https://www.h-och.ch/comprehensive-cancer-centre/leistungsangebot/
- HOCH Health Ostschweiz: Kantonsspital St.Gallen site: https://www.h-och.ch/ueber-uns/standorte/stgallen/
- HOCH Health Ostschweiz: about us: https://www.h-och.ch/ueber-uns/

## Connected records

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

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