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N. N. Petrov National Medical Research Centre of Oncology
aka НМИЦ онкологии им. Н.Н. Петрова, ФГБУ «Национальный медицинский исследовательский центр онкологии имени Н.Н. Петрова» Минздрава России, Petrov Institute, NMRC of Oncology named after N.N. Petrov
Russia's oldest cancer institute, founded in Leningrad in 1927 by Nikolai Petrov, now the federal cancer centre for the north-west in the Pesochny suburb of Saint Petersburg.
Overview
The institute's own history page dates its founding to 15 March 1927, when Nikolai Nikolaevich Petrov, the founder of Russian oncology, opened a cancer research institute on the site of the Mechnikov general hospital in Leningrad with 100 beds; its history page records that in 1966 it passed to the USSR Ministry of Health, was given Petrov’s name and opened a 40-bed childhood tumour department, and that it marked its ninetieth anniversary in 2017. Its present official name, from the footer of its own site, is ФГБУ «Национальный медицинский исследовательский центр онкологии имени Н.Н.Петрова» Минздрава России. It now sits at Leningradskaya 68 in Pesochny, north of Saint Petersburg, running surgery, radiotherapy, drug therapy, paediatric oncology, molecular diagnostics and residency training, and publishing the journal Voprosy Onkologii (Вопросы онкологии). It is one of the lead sponsors of cancer trials registered on ClinicalTrials.gov with a Russian site since 2023.
Location
Saint Petersburg, RU
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#400 · 14 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 14 from 7 linked objects) · ranking
- Surgical oncology
- Radiotherapy
- Paediatric oncology
- Molecular diagnostics
- Voprosy Onkologii journal
methodsBMC cancer 2023
Completeness of regional cancer registry data in north-west Russia, 2008 to 2017
The national figures published each year are the sum of regional reporting forms, not of the registry databases, and the two differ. Anyone comparing Russian incidence with another country's should know which of the two they are reading.
methodsActa oncologica 2021
Comparability and validity of cancer registry data in the north-west of Russia
Russian national cancer figures are assembled from regional registries of very uneven quality, so a national average conceals both real differences in disease and differences in how carefully cases are recorded. It is the reason to read the Herzen institute's annual volumes alongside an independent audit rather than on their own.