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Fundación Arturo López Pérez
Chile's largest dedicated cancer institute, a non-profit foundation founded in 1954 and the country's most active site for oncology trials and advanced radiotherapy.
Also called: FALPInstituto Oncológico FALP
Overview
The Fundación Arturo López Pérez was created in Santiago in 1954 under the will of businessman Arturo López Pérez to fight cancer in Chile, and its Instituto Oncológico is the country's largest cancer-only hospital. FALP provides surgical, medical and radiation oncology, haematology and bone marrow transplant, nuclear medicine and palliative care, was the first Chilean centre with robotic cancer surgery and stereotactic and intraoperative radiotherapy, and runs one of Latin America's most active clinical research units with a large portfolio of international registration trials. The foundation also operates preventive medicine and screening programmes, a tumour bank and research into gastric cancer, which is unusually common in Chile, and gallbladder cancer, for which Chile has among the highest rates in the world.
Location
Santiago, CL
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#226 · 26 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 26 from 13 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-10-01.
Matched to Fundación Arturo López Pérez, including child institutions. 90 works · 3,099 citations · 76% open access · 14% clinical trials · 0% reviews.
Oncology works per year
152022
142023
172024
292025
152026
Most works
- Christian Caglevic15 works
- Paolo A. Ascierto11 works
- Dirk Schadendorf11 works
- Evan J. Lipson10 works
- Luis Matamala10 works
- Helen J Gogas10 works
- Hussein A. Tawbi9 works
- Yelena Yuriy Janjigian9 works
- Marcelo Garrido9 works
- Georgina Venetia Long9 works
Most cited
- Cancer institute
- Clinical trials unit
- Robotic surgery and advanced radiotherapy
- Gastric and gallbladder cancer research
Cristián Ayala Munita
General Manager (Gerente General) of Fundación Arturo López Pérez
Hospital managementCancer care deliveryNon-profit healthcare
General Manager of Fundación Arturo López Pérez, the Chilean non-profit cancer foundation that runs an oncology institute in Santiago.
Rolando Medeiros
Representative of Fundación Arturo López Pérez to the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes
Cancer centre representation (OECI)
Rolando Medeiros represents Fundación Arturo López Pérez in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Chile.
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