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Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Ghana's premier teaching hospital and West Africa's largest, hosting the National Radiotherapy, Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Centre and leading African breast cancer research.
Also called: Korle BuNational Radiotherapy Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Centre
Overview
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital opened in 1923 and is the main teaching hospital of the University of Ghana Medical School and the largest hospital in West Africa. Its National Radiotherapy, Oncology and Nuclear Medicine Centre, established with IAEA support in 1997, was one of the first radiotherapy centres in the sub-region and provides external beam and brachytherapy, chemotherapy and nuclear medicine; the hospital also runs surgical, gynaecological and paediatric oncology and haematology services. Korle Bu and the University of Ghana are lead African partners in studies of triple-negative and hereditary breast cancer in West African women, prostate cancer genetics, Burkitt lymphoma and hepatocellular carcinoma, and the hospital hosts the Accra cancer registry and trains oncologists across Anglophone West Africa.
Location
Accra, GH
Type
hospital · University of Ghana
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#236 · 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 2026-09-15.
Matched to Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, including child institutions. 84 works · 1,182 citations · 74% open access · 1% clinical trials · 6% reviews.
Oncology works per year
172022
162023
162024
252025
102026
Most works
- Josephine Nsaful14 works
- Florence Dedey14 works
- Verna Vanderpuye11 works
- Joe‐Nat Clegg‐Lamptey10 works
- Patrick Kafui Akakpo8 works
- Kofi Adesi Kyei7 works
- Sylvester Antwi7 works
- Kwabena Agbedinu7 works
- Evelyn Jiagge7 works
- Joel Yarney7 works
Most cited
- National Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Centre
- West African breast cancer research
- Paediatric oncology
- Accra cancer registry
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