{"entity":{"id":"kumamoto-university-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Kumamoto University Hospital","aka":["熊本大学病院"],"tldr":"Kumamoto University's teaching hospital, which the health ministry designates as Kumamoto Prefecture's hub hospital for cancer care.","summary":"The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare lists it as the prefectural cancer care hub hospital (都道府県がん診療連携拠点病院) for Kumamoto Prefecture, the top tier of the ministry's designated cancer care hospitals. Its cancer centre takes in an outpatient chemotherapy centre, a cancer consultation and support centre, a cancer registry, a palliative care centre, a cancer genome centre and a support team for adolescents and young adults with cancer. Its site offers English through an automatic translation service.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare: designated cancer care hospitals (がん診療連携拠点病院等)","url":"https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryou/kenkou/gan/gan_byoin.html"},{"label":"Kumamoto University Hospital: foreign language page","url":"https://www.kuh.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/foreign/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Kumamoto","country":"JP","lat":32.803,"lng":130.708,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.kuh.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/","university":"Kumamoto University","programs":["Prefectural cancer care hub","Outpatient chemotherapy centre","Cancer genome centre","Palliative care centre","AYA cancer support team"]},"route":"/institutions/kumamoto-university-hospital/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"ncc-japan","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Center Hospital","route":"/institutions/ncc-japan/"}]}}