# Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology

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## TL;DR

Poland's national cancer institute, founded on Marie Curie's initiative in 1932, with branches in Gliwice and Kraków and the national cancer registry.

## Summary

The Radium Institute opened in Warsaw in 1932 at the initiative of Maria Skłodowska-Curie, who donated a gram of radium, and today the National Research Institute of Oncology is Poland's largest cancer centre and national reference institution, with branches in Gliwice and Kraków. It hosts the Polish National Cancer Registry, coordinates the national cancer strategy and cooperative trials, and its Kraków branch treats patients with protons at the Bronowice Cyclotron Centre. Piotr Rutkowski's sarcoma and melanoma department is a European reference and contributes to ESMO guidelines, and the institute has large radiotherapy, brachytherapy, surgical and haematology departments. It runs early-phase trials and the national precision oncology programme.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: NIO-PIB; Centrum Onkologii; Instytut im. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie; Maria Sklodowska- Curie National Research Institute of Oncology; Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology
- City: Warsaw, PL
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://www.pib-nio.pl

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sk%C5%82odowska-Curie_National_Research_Institute_of_Oncology
- Homepage: https://www.pib-nio.pl
- Polish National Cancer Registry: https://onkologia.org.pl

## Connected records

- cancers: [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/), [Sarcomas (soft tissue, bone, GIST)](https://onco.cc/cancers/sarcoma/)
- fronts: [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- technologies: [Brachytherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/), [Immune checkpoint inhibitors](https://onco.cc/technologies/checkpoint-inhibitor/), [IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)](https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/), [Proton therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/)
- companies: [EORTC](https://onco.cc/companies/curie-nki-eortc/)
- institutions: [European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/esmo/), [Greater Poland Cancer Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/greater-poland-cancer-centre/), [Institute of Mother and Child, Warsaw](https://onco.cc/institutions/institute-of-mother-and-child/), [National Institute of Oncology, Gliwice Branch](https://onco.cc/institutions/nio-gliwice/), [National Institute of Oncology, Hungary](https://onco.cc/institutions/noi-budapest/), [Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital Research Institute](https://onco.cc/institutions/polish-mothers-memorial-hospital/), [University Clinical Centre, Gdańsk](https://onco.cc/institutions/uck-gdansk/)
- people: [Andrzej Kawecki](https://onco.cc/people/andrzej-kawecki/), [Beata Jagielska](https://onco.cc/people/beata-jagielska/), [Michał Mikula](https://onco.cc/people/michal-mikula/), [Piotr Rutkowski](https://onco.cc/people/piotr-rutkowski/)
- bottlenecks: [Most of the world has almost no cancer care](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-global-access/)

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