{"entity":{"id":"iorc-santiago-dominican-republic","kind":"institution","name":"Instituto Oncológico Regional del Cibao","aka":["IORC","Regional Oncology Institute of Cibao","Patronato Cibaeño Contra el Cáncer","Centro de Radioterapia IORC"],"tldr":"A charity cancer hospital in Santiago de los Caballeros, in the north of the Dominican Republic, with surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and palliative care.","summary":"The Instituto Oncológico Regional del Cibao is the hospital of the Patronato Cibaeño Contra el Cáncer, a private not-for-profit organisation founded in October 1964 and an associate member of UICC since 2002. UICC's member page describes the hospital as having 40 beds and 110 salaried staff, with diagnostic imaging, clinical and pathology laboratories, nuclear medicine, surgery, clinical oncology, radiotherapy and palliative care, financed by donations, low-cost charges to patients and a small annual government allocation. IAEA DIRAC lists the Centro de Radioterapia IORC at the same address, Pedro Francisco Bonó 33, with one linear accelerator and one brachytherapy unit (entry last updated 2021). Coordinates are DIRAC's.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"UICC: Patronato Cibaeño Contra el Cáncer (member page)","url":"https://www.uicc.org/membership/patronato-cibaeno-contra-el-cancer"},{"label":"IAEA DIRAC: directory of radiotherapy centres, equipment by operator","url":"https://dirac.iaea.org/Data/CountriesLight"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["homs-santiago-dominican-republic","iaea"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Santiago de los Caballeros","country":"DO","lat":19.455,"lng":-70.7,"institutionType":"cancer-center","programs":["Clinical oncology","Radiotherapy (one linear accelerator and brachytherapy in IAEA DIRAC)","Nuclear medicine","Palliative care"]},"route":"/institutions/iorc-santiago-dominican-republic/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"homs-santiago-dominican-republic","kind":"institution","name":"Hospital Metropolitano de Santiago (HOMS)","route":"/institutions/homs-santiago-dominican-republic/"},{"id":"iaea","kind":"institution","name":"International Atomic Energy Agency: Rays of Hope","route":"/institutions/iaea/"}]}}