{"entity":{"id":"westmead-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Westmead Hospital","aka":["Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead","CPMCC","Westmead Familial Cancer Service"],"tldr":"The main public referral hospital for Western Sydney. Its Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre gives chemotherapy and immunotherapy, radiotherapy, blood cancer care including transplants, genetic testing for inherited cancer and palliative care.","summary":"Westmead Hospital, run by Western Sydney Local Health District of NSW Health, describes itself as the main referral hospital for Western Sydney, treating patients from 14 years and 9 months old; children are seen by the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network. Its cancer service is the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead, which the district says opened in 2007 and was renamed in 2011 after a visit by Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, marking a training and research collaboration with Danish oncologists. The centre lists gynaecological, medical, surgical and radiation oncology, radiotherapy including brachytherapy, haematology and cellular therapies including transplants, palliative and psycho-oncology care, translational research and clinical trials, with teaching links to the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University. The Westmead Familial Cancer Service gives genetic counselling and germline testing and runs risk management clinics for inherited cancer syndromes, seeing patients in the cancer centre and the Westmead Breast Cancer Institute. Newsweek and Statista's World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026 list for oncology ranks it 244.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"NSW Health service directory: Westmead Hospital","url":"https://www.wslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Westmead-Hospital"},{"label":"Newsweek World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology, rank 244 (Westmead Hospital, Westmead)","url":"https://rankings.newsweek.com/worlds-best-specialized-hospitals-2026/oncology"},{"label":"Western Sydney Local Health District: cancer care in Western Sydney","url":"https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/wslhd/services/cancer-care"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["sydney-childrens-hospitals-network"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Westmead, Sydney","country":"AU","lat":-33.804,"lng":150.989,"institutionType":"hospital","website":"https://www.wslhd.health.nsw.gov.au/Westmead-Hospital","newsweekOncology2026":244,"programs":["Crown Princess Mary Cancer Centre Westmead","Radiotherapy including brachytherapy","Haematology and cellular therapies, including transplants","Westmead Familial Cancer Service","Westmead Breast Cancer Institute","Palliative and psycho-oncology care"]},"route":"/institutions/westmead-hospital/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"sydney-childrens-hospitals-network","kind":"institution","name":"Sydney Children's Hospitals Network / Children's Cancer Institute","route":"/institutions/sydney-childrens-hospitals-network/"}],"collection":[{"id":"newsweek-hospitals","kind":"collection","name":"Newsweek/Statista World's Best Specialized Hospitals: Oncology","route":"/collections/newsweek-hospitals/"}]}}