# University Medical Center Groningen Comprehensive Cancer Center

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## TL;DR

The university hospital of the northern Netherlands, home of the country's first proton therapy centre and accredited by OECI as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

## Summary

The University Medical Center Groningen is the academic hospital of the University of Groningen and the tertiary cancer centre for the northern Netherlands. Its Comprehensive Cancer Center integrates medical oncology, radiotherapy, haematology, surgical oncology, paediatric oncology and molecular imaging, and it opened the first proton therapy centre in the Netherlands in 2018. UMCG is known for molecular imaging with radiolabelled antibodies and drugs (immuno-PET), for lung and breast cancer research, for radiotherapy model-based selection, and for large-scale population research through the Lifelines cohort. It is accredited by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-10
- Also known as: UMCG; UMCG Cancer Center
- Tags: oeci-accredited; oeci-comprehensive-cancer-centre
- City: Groningen, NL
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.umcg.nl

## Sources

- Official website: https://www.umcg.nl
- PTCOG: particle therapy facilities in operation: https://www.ptcog.site/index.php/facilities-in-operation-public

## Connected records

- technologies: [Proton therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/), [Proton therapy machines: cyclotrons, synchrotrons and single-room systems](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy-systems/)
- institutions: [Organisation of European Cancer Institutes](https://onco.cc/institutions/oeci/)
- people: [Ate van der Zee](https://onco.cc/people/ate-van-der-zee/), [Lukas B. Been](https://onco.cc/people/lukas-b-been/)

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