# King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre

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## TL;DR

Saudi Arabia's flagship tertiary hospital, whose Oncology Centre runs the Gulf's largest transplant, CAR-T and proton therapy programmes.

## Summary

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre opened in Riyadh in 1975 and, with campuses in Jeddah and Madinah, is the leading referral hospital of Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf. Its Oncology Centre and King Fahad National Centre for Children's Cancer deliver high-volume adult and paediatric cancer care, including one of the largest haematopoietic stem cell transplant programmes in the region, locally manufactured CAR-T therapy, robotic surgery, radioligand therapy and the first proton therapy facility in the Middle East, opened in Riyadh. The Research Centre hosts genomics under the Saudi Human Genome Program, cancer biology and clinical trials units, and the hospital houses the Saudi Cancer Registry's largest contributing service and pioneering work on thyroid, breast and hereditary cancers common in the Kingdom.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: KFSH&RC; KFSHRC; مستشفى الملك فيصل التخصصي
- City: Riyadh, SA
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.kfshrc.edu.sa

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Faisal_Specialist_Hospital_and_Research_Centre
- KFSH&RC: https://www.kfshrc.edu.sa

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Thyroid cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/thyroid/)
- fronts: [Cell Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/cell-therapy/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- technologies: [Allogeneic (off-the-shelf) cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/allogeneic-cell-therapy/), [CAR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/car-t/), [Germline (hereditary) testing](https://onco.cc/technologies/germline-testing/), [Proton therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/), [Radioligand therapy (beta emitters)](https://onco.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/)
- people: [Majid Ibrahim Alfayyadh](https://onco.cc/people/majid-alfayyadh/)
- institutions: [Bahrain Oncology Center, King Hamad University Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/bahrain-oncology-centre/), [Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Care and Research Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/sultan-qaboos-cccrc/)

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