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Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Colombia)
Colombia's national cancer institute, responsible for cancer control policy, the national cancer observatory and specialist care in Bogotá.
Also called: INC ColombiaInstituto Nacional de Cancerología ESE
Overview
The Instituto Nacional de Cancerología in Bogotá was founded in 1934 as the Instituto Nacional de Radium and is Colombia's state cancer institute, combining a specialist hospital with a public-health mandate for the national cancer control plan, cancer surveillance (the National Cancer Observatory and incidence estimates with regional registries in Cali and elsewhere) and clinical guidelines. It provides surgical, medical, radiation and paediatric oncology, runs research in cancer epidemiology, HPV and cervical cancer prevention (Colombia introduced HPV vaccination and HPV-based screening with INC studies), gastric cancer in the Andean high-risk region, and health services research, and trains specialists with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Location
Bogotá, CO
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#304 · 22 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 22 from 11 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-15.
Matched to Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, including child institutions. 150 works · 1,180 citations · 74% open access · 5% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
Oncology works per year
262022
342023
332024
312025
262026
Most works
- Rafael Parra‐Medina10 works
- Ricardo Brugés9 works
- Diego Felipe Ballén8 works
- Isabel Munévar7 works
- Fernando Contreras Mejía7 works
- Silvia J. Serrano‐Gómez6 works
- Yelena Y. Janjigian6 works
- Humberto Martínez‐Cordero6 works
- Jaffer A. Ajani6 works
- William Mantilla6 works
Most cited
- National cancer control plan
- Cancer surveillance and observatory
- HPV and cervical cancer research
- Gastric cancer
Carolina Wiesner
Representative of Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Colombia) to the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes
Cancer centre representation (OECI)
Carolina Wiesner represents Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Colombia) in the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes, which lists the centre among its members in Colombia.
Nubia Muñoz
Emeritus Professor, National Cancer Institute of Colombia; former Chief of Field and Intervention Studies, IARC
HPV epidemiologyCervical cancer causationCancer prevention
Colombian epidemiologist whose IARC studies proved HPV causes cervical cancer and identified the types the vaccines target.
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