{"entity":{"id":"virginia-mason-medical-center","kind":"institution","name":"Virginia Mason Medical Center","aka":["Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, Seattle","Virginia Mason"],"tldr":"A hospital in downtown Seattle, part of the Virginia Mason Franciscan Health system. Its cancer teams treat most kinds of cancer, including surgery for cancers of the pancreas, liver, bile ducts and gullet.","summary":"Virginia Mason Medical Center, at 1100 Ninth Avenue in Seattle, is part of Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, whose patient portal is now CommonSpirit's. The system's cancer care pages list multidisciplinary clinics for breast, gynaecological, thoracic, head and neck, blood, skin, thyroid and genitourinary cancers; laser interstitial thermal therapy for brain tumours; brachytherapy for cervical and prostate cancer; hepatic artery infusion pumps and bile duct ablation for liver and biliary cancers; and minimally invasive robotic and thoracoscopic surgery for oesophageal and stomach cancers. For colorectal cancer it reports accreditation by the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, and for pancreatic cancer more than 100 major pancreatic operations a year and recognition by the National Pancreas Foundation as a Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence. It also lists cancer genetic testing, a gastrointestinal cancer prevention programme, lung cancer screening, integrative therapies, second opinions and clinical trials. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 235.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"Virginia Mason Franciscan Health: Virginia Mason Medical Center","url":"https://www.vmfh.org/our-hospitals/virginia-mason-medical-center"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 235 (Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"Virginia Mason Franciscan Health: cancer care","url":"https://www.vmfh.org/our-services/cancer-care"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":[],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Seattle","country":"US","lat":47.61,"lng":-122.327,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.vmfh.org/our-hospitals/virginia-mason-medical-center","newsweekOncology2026":235,"programs":["Pancreatic Cancer Center of Excellence (National Pancreas Foundation)","National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer","Laser interstitial thermal therapy for brain tumours","Hepatic artery infusion pump therapy","Cervical and prostate brachytherapy","Gastrointestinal cancer prevention programme","Lung cancer screening"]},"route":"/institutions/virginia-mason-medical-center/","neighbours":{"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}