Thoraxklinik Heidelberg

The Thoraxklinik Heidelberg is a specialist hospital for lung and chest disease and, as it describes itself, part of Heidelberg University Hospital. It has been a certified lung cancer centre for years, is a European reference centre for rare lung disease (ERN Lung), and also runs an accredited weaning centre and centres for sleep medicine and pulmonary hypertension. It reports about 2,300 thoracic operations a year, discussed in daily interdisciplinary conferences; it uses a da Vinci X robotic system, with which more than 1,000 patients have been operated on, for lobe and segment resections of malignant lung tumours, mediastinal tumours and thymectomy. It is a partner in the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), a founding member of the National Center for Tumor Diseases Heidelberg (NCT) and works closely with the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). Newsweek and Statista rank it 112 in World's Best Specialized Hospitals 2026: Oncology.