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A.C. Camargo Cancer Center
Latin America's leading dedicated cancer centre, founded in 1953, with a large research institute and the region's biggest oncology residency.
Also called: A.C.CamargoHospital A.C. CamargoFundação Antônio Prudente
Overview
A.C. Camargo Cancer Center was founded in São Paulo in 1953 by Antônio Prudente and his wife Carmen through the Fundação Antônio Prudente and is the largest cancer-only hospital in Latin America, combining care, teaching and research. It is known for surgical oncology (head and neck, breast, sarcoma, colorectal and hepatobiliary), one of the region's first robotic surgery programmes, a large hereditary cancer service that characterised the Brazilian TP53 R337H founder mutation in Li-Fraumeni syndrome, and the International Research Center (CIPE) for genomics, bioinformatics and clinical trials. A.C. Camargo runs Brazil's largest oncology residency and fellowship programme and a cancer registry that has tracked outcomes since the 1950s.
Location
São Paulo, BR
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#194 · 28 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 28 from 14 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-24.
Matched to AC Camargo Hospital, including child institutions. 354 works · 2,437 citations · 73% open access · 10% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
Oncology works per year
512022
812023
782024
852025
592026
Most works
- María Paula Curado26 works
- Vladmir Cláudio Cordeiro de Lima24 works
- João Pedreira Duprat Neto23 works
- Samuel Aguiar19 works
- Dirce Maria Carraro19 works
- Rachel P. Riechelmann15 works
- Eduardo Bertolli14 works
- Felipe José Fernández Coimbra14 works
- Gisele Aparecida Fernandes13 works
- Victor Hugo Fonseca de Jesus13 works
Most cited
- Surgical oncology and robotics
- Hereditary cancer (TP53 R337H)
- International Research Center (CIPE)
- Oncology residency
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