{"entity":{"id":"james-cook-cancer-institute","kind":"institution","name":"James Cook Cancer Institute","aka":["James Cook Cancer Institute, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust","The James Cook University Hospital cancer services"],"tldr":"The cancer service of the South Tees public hospitals trust, based at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. It provides cancer tests, surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy for people across Teesside and North Yorkshire.","summary":"The James Cook Cancer Institute is the cancer service of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, working from the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton. The trust describes it as the specialist centre for cancer diagnosis, treatment and care for more than 1.5 million people across Teesside, North Yorkshire and beyond, performing more than 2,000 cancer operations a year across breast, lung, cardiothoracic, upper and lower gastrointestinal, haematological, skin, gynaecological, urological, head and neck, thyroid and brain and central nervous system cancers, with specialist palliative care. Its radiotherapy department carries out about 40,000 treatments a year, and its chemotherapy service about 10,000, from day units at James Cook and the Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre at the Friarage and a day service at Darlington Memorial Hospital run with County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust; there is a teenage and young adult unit on the haematology ward. It also runs a rapid diagnostic centre, a radiotherapy late effects service (CLEAR), a prehabilitation programme and an oncology trials unit, and lists Maggie's Middlesbrough among its support services. Since 2024 South Tees has worked with North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust as the group University Hospitals Tees.\n\nNewsweek and Statista ranked it 248th in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"South Tees Hospitals: James Cook Cancer Institute","url":"https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/cancer-institute/"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 248 (James Cook Cancer Institute, Middlesbrough)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"James Cook Cancer Institute: welcome","url":"https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/cancer-institute/welcome-to-the-james-cook-cancer-institute/"},{"label":"James Cook Cancer Institute: radiotherapy","url":"https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/cancer-institute/radiotherapy/"},{"label":"James Cook Cancer Institute: chemotherapy","url":"https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/cancer-institute/chemotherapy/"},{"label":"About University Hospitals Tees","url":"https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/about/university-hospitals-tees/about/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["maggies-middlesbrough"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Middlesbrough","country":"GB","lat":54.552,"lng":-1.214,"institutionType":"cancer-center","website":"https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/services/cancer-institute/","newsweekOncology2026":248,"programs":[]},"route":"/institutions/james-cook-cancer-institute/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"maggies-middlesbrough","kind":"institution","name":"Maggie's Middlesbrough","route":"/institutions/maggies-middlesbrough/"}],"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}