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King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Saudi Arabia's flagship tertiary hospital, whose Oncology Centre runs the Gulf's largest transplant, CAR-T and proton therapy programmes.
Also called: KFSH&RCKFSHRCمستشفى الملك فيصل التخصصي
Overview
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.
Location
Riyadh, SA
Type
hospital
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#207 · 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 2026-09-15.
Matched to King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, including child institutions. 271 works · 2,665 citations · 76% open access · 7% clinical trials · 4% reviews.
Oncology works per year
492022
562023
512024
562025
592026
Most works
- Mahmoud Aljurf27 works
- Shouki Bazarbashi16 works
- Abdulwahab Albabtain15 works
- Syed Osman Ahmed14 works
- Naeem Chaudhri12 works
- Saud Alhayli12 works
- Ali Alahmari12 works
- Walid Rasheed11 works
- Alfadel Alshaibani11 works
- Saleh A. Alqahtani10 works
Most cited
- Oncology Centre and children's cancer centre
- Stem cell transplant and CAR-T
- Proton therapy
- Saudi Human Genome Program
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