Oncology Center

The Oncology Center at the International Medical Center (IMC) is offering a unique comprehensive, evidence-based, and patient-centered care. The service is provided by consultants with many years of experience. Besides, the service is blessed with having compassionate non-consultant staff and dedicated nurses. Our nurses are professional and well-experienced and benign the only oncology nursing service in the Kingdom that administers all therapies using central porta-cath for ALL patients. Our nurses are also have tremendous experience in managing the scalp cooling system that prevents hair loss, the IMC hosts the only available system in the entire country.

The Center is committed to offer holistic care for adult patients with solid tumors, gynecologic malignancies, and malignant lymphomas. The radiotherapy treatment is managed by a senior radiation oncologist and the treatment is offered at a state-of-art facility at King Abdulaziz University Hospital. The oncology service is strongly supported by a strong team of surgical oncologists and aesthetic surgeons. Moreover, we are also supported by a sophisticated laboratory facility that is run by experienced pathologists, chemists, and scientists. We have access to the most recent development in the field of personalized oncology, genomic profiling using the most recent next generation sequencing techniques. Patients managed at the Oncology Center have the unique advantage of easy accessibility to the most recent targeted therapy and immunotherapy in addition to conventional remedies. All management decisions are made at multidisciplinary board meetings that involve all relevant departments and services to ensure that the every patient would receive the best management recommendation according to the most recent advances in the field. The scientific research activities and the publications in leading international journals are exceptional added-value to our current practice.

Our patients and their well-being are the center of our philosophy. We provide extensive education sessions for patients and their families. Moreover, we conduct monthly support groups for patients and we gave them the opportunity to meet with other cancer survivors and experts in relevant fields like nutrition, psychology, spirituality, yoga, etc. Perhaps also unique to our practice is the development of a mobile application and a dedicated You-Tube channel that provide patients and the public the most recent information about cancer care and cancer prevention.

Our Services:

• Management of all adult solid tumors (chemotherapy, immunotherapy, biological therapy, hormonal therapy, and radiotherapy).
• Management of all adult malignant hematology.
• Clinical cancer research.
• Primary preventive oncology.
• Early detection and screening programs.
• Cancer care education.
• Public awareness activities.