{"entity":{"id":"kameda-medical-center","kind":"institution","name":"Kameda Medical Center","aka":["亀田総合病院","Kameda General Hospital","医療法人鉄蕉会 亀田総合病院"],"tldr":"A private general hospital in Kamogawa, on the southern Boso peninsula of Chiba, that serves as the main hospital for the south of the prefecture and has departments for cancer medicines, cancer surgery, radiotherapy, cancer genetics and palliative care.","summary":"Kameda General Hospital (亀田総合病院) in Kamogawa, Chiba Prefecture, is the core hospital of the Kameda Medical Center and is run by the medical corporation Tesshokai (医療法人鉄蕉会); its outline page gives 865 general and 42 psychiatric licensed beds, and it describes itself as the main acute care hospital for southern Chiba, accredited by Joint Commission International. Its department list includes haematology and oncology, medical oncology, breast surgery, surgical oncology, a radiotherapy centre, pain and palliative care, a cancer support clinic, cancer genomic medicine and a cancer consultation support centre. The medical oncology department describes multidisciplinary treatment of solid tumours including sarcomas and digestive cancers with the surgical and radiotherapy teams, and the radiotherapy centre lists high dose rate brachytherapy for gynaecological cancers, interstitial brachytherapy (prostate seeds, head and neck, gynaecological) and radionuclide therapy with iodine and radium. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 296.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Kameda General Hospital (Japanese)","url":"https://medical.kameda.com/general/"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 296 (Kameda Medical Center, Kamogawa)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"Kameda General Hospital: hospital outline (病院概要)","url":"https://medical.kameda.com/general/about/summary/index.html"},{"label":"Kameda General Hospital: departments (診療科・部門紹介)","url":"https://medical.kameda.com/general/medi_services/index.html"},{"label":"Kameda General Hospital: medical oncology (腫瘍内科)","url":"https://medical.kameda.com/general/medi_services/index_18.html"},{"label":"Kameda General Hospital: radiotherapy centre (放射線治療センター)","url":"https://medical.kameda.com/general/medi_services/index_33.html"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Kamogawa","country":"JP","lat":35.121,"lng":140.126,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://medical.kameda.com/general/","newsweekOncology2026":296,"programs":["Medical oncology","Haematology and oncology","Surgical oncology","Radiotherapy centre with brachytherapy and radionuclide therapy","Cancer genomic medicine","Pain and palliative care","Cancer consultation support centre"]},"route":"/institutions/kameda-medical-center/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}