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Comprehensive Cancer Center

We are responsible for radiation therapy as well as for the drug therapy for cancer and treatment of hematological diseases in patients over the age of 16 in the Uusimaa region. We are also responsible for breast surgery, as well as demanding, special-level palliative care and end-of-life care.

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The Comprehensive Cancer Center is Finland's largest and most versatile cancer treatment center. We provide personalized treatment, the quality of which is guaranteed by the personnel’s high level of competence and our modern state-of-the-art technology.  

The Comprehensive Cancer Center is the second European and the first Nordic cancer center to have undergone OECI (Organisation of European Cancer Institutes) accreditation and achieved the highest possible status of a Comprehensive Cancer Center in 2014. The Comprehensive Cancer Center is also accredited as a member of the European Reference on Rare Adult Solid Cancers, EURACAN. Our expertise is internationally highly valued and our treatment results are world-class. We work closely with scientific and operational development across our international networks.

American Nurses Credentialing Center ANCC awarded HUS Comprehensive Cancer Center the Magnet® recognition in 2024. The Magnet Hospital recognizes nursing excellence. It is a research-based quality system that benefits the patients, the nursing staff, and the entire organization. The recognition proves that the quality of nursing, patient safety, and nurses’ job satisfaction in Comprehensive Cancer Center are measured to be excellent. 

Our customer panels and experts by experience bring an important patient perspective to the development of our operations.

We train medical and nursing science students, as well as doctors and medical physicists who specialize in different fields. Cancer nurses have the opportunity, in addition to their own work, to participate in a multi-level training program for cancer nurses, covering the entire career path and developed together with the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. 

The Comprehensive Cancer Center has a Clinical Trial Unit, which has the ability to conduct trials throughout the entire developmental phase of a new cancer drug and also first-in-man trials. We are also conducting scientific research on new technologies for radiation therapy, such as boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). The key objective of our research activities is to promote translation, i.e. faster and more efficient utilization of the research results for the benefit of the patient.   

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Nursing at the Comprehensive Cancer Center

For each patient, our goal is to provide the best possible care that meets the patient’s varied needs. At the Comprehensive Cancer Center, our work is guided by the HUS nursing strategy and the principles of the professional operating model: professional skills, genuine caring, holistic care, cooperation, and ethics. Nurses respond to the individual needs of patients in a holistic manner. With us, the emphasis in assisting people is in caring for the patient and their loved ones. We are present, we listen, we encourage, and we support.



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