University Medical Center Groningen Comprehensive Cancer Center
The university hospital of the northern Netherlands, home of the country's first proton therapy centre and accredited by OECI as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
Overview
The University Medical Center Groningen is the academic hospital of the University of Groningen and the tertiary cancer centre for the northern Netherlands. Its Comprehensive Cancer Center integrates medical oncology, radiotherapy, haematology, surgical oncology, paediatric oncology and molecular imaging, and it opened the first proton therapy centre in the Netherlands in 2018. UMCG is known for molecular imaging with radiolabelled antibodies and drugs (immuno-PET), for lung and breast cancer research, for radiotherapy model-based selection, and for large-scale population research through the Lifelines cohort. It is accredited by the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes as a Comprehensive Cancer Centre.
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-10-22.
Matched to University Medical Center Groningen, including child institutions. 947 works · 12,110 citations · 90% open access · 10% clinical trials · 3% reviews.
- Marc G. Besselink99 works
- Geke A.P. Hospers97 works
- Ignace H. J. T. de Hingh93 works
- Izaak Quintus Molenaar88 works
- Vincent Erwin de Meijer82 works
- Hjalmar C. van Santvoort80 works
- Bas Groot Koerkamp76 works
- Esther C. J. Consten73 works
- Karijn P.M. Suijkerbuijk71 works
- Martijn W.J. Stommel67 works
- Proton therapy
- Molecular imaging (immuno-PET)
- Lung and breast cancer research
- Paediatric oncology
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