Oncology
The Department of Oncology is one specialty of internal medicine, involving medical treatment of diverse tumors such as stomach cancer,
lung cancer, colorectal cancer, malignant lymphoma, multiple myeloma, pancreatic cancer, esophageal cancer, head & neck cancer, urologic cancer, sarcoma, and liver cancer.
Supported by ten cancer treatment teams within the Cancer Institute, we determine the best therapy for various cancerous growths by considering the patients’ medical records, comorbid diseases, and body condition, engaging in treatment, education, and research in chemotherapy and the latest molecular-targeted therapy We also try to offer optimal treatments using various supportive therapies in order to minimize the inconvenience cancer patients suffer and improve their quality of life.
A lot of medical professionals are engaged in an integrated treatment of fourteen cancers led by the Cancer Institute and treat outpatients. Inpatients receive treatment in three wards including the (Self) Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) Ward. The Department of Oncology allows patients to receive anti-cancer treatment at the Chemotherapy Infusion Room without the need of hospitalization for the convenience of patients. We also implement clinical trials using a wide range of newly-developed anticancer drugs in close cooperation with the Clinical Research Center. We spur the development of new drugs by participating in detailed assignments of AMC which is selected as the Institute for Innovative Cancer Research for basic and implementation research.
With the aim of “selecting proper treatment method” and “maximizing its effectiveness and minimizing side effects,” we will do our best to conduct clinical trials and basic studies to offer the most effective treatment by determining the right approach and method of treatment, providing counseling and education to patients and their families.
Medical Specialities
Take a look at the treatment of major diseases in your department.
Lung Cancer
AMC Lung Cancer Center is different. We allow patients to receive fast diagnosis and best medical services as quickly as possible. We draw up treatment plans and schedules to allow patients to get diagnosis and medical care as soon as possible through specialists’ consultations and coordinators’ counseling service.
Stomach Cancer
Specialists in the fields related to stomach cancer such as stomach surgery, gastroenterology, oncology, radiology, and pathology as well as nurse practitioners always make efforts to improve the results of cancer treatment by offering accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment for each patient, reporting postoperative progress, and performing additional treatment through complementary and coordinated cooperation.
Esophageal Cancer
AMC Esophageal Cancer Center has a collaboration system effectively run by experienced specialists who are leading various fields with advanced medical skills and expertise.
Colorectal Cancer
AMC Colorectal Cancer Center improves the prognosis of patients through a multidisciplinary system and integrated treatment to provide best treatment by embracing various opinions of specialists from relevant departments on liver metastasis that often occurs in colorectal cancers, lung metastasis, and locally recurrent cancers such as intractable colorectal cancer.
Breast Cancer
For the last two decades, AMC Breast Cancer Center has shown excellent treatment results of breast cancer with 89.3% of five-year survival rates of patients with all-stage cancers between 1989 and 2008 while 91.9% of five-year survival rates in all patients between 2003 and 2008, which is a 20% improvement of survival rates in 15 years.
Liver Cancer
AMC Liver Cancer Center established a systematic treatment system that allows liver cancer patients to receive optimal treatment in the best medical environment by ▲improving medical treatment of liver cancer patients ▲streamlining a surgery-related process and the use of surgical skills ▲reinforcing cooperation among departments, and ▲promoting a regular meeting and study for multidisciplinary treatment, and carry out high-quality researches.
Head and Neck Cancer
AMC Head and Neck Cancer Center runs a clinic for one-stop treatment and clinical research to provide professional consultations on surgical treatment, radiotherapy, drug therapy, how to improve lifestyles including a dietary life, and how to care for complications after surgery and radiotherapy.
Gynecologic Cancer
AMC Gynecologic Cancer Center provides specialized diagnosis, treatment, and care of cancers that occur in the internal and external genital organs (carcinomas) and premalignant lesion, and performs the largest number of high-quality treatment and surgeries.
Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer
Around 2,000 first-visit patients with biliary tract and pancreatic cancer visit AMC and more than 800 surgeries for the cancer are performed every year. The number of outpatients has even doubled in five years.
Urologic Cancer
The AMC Cancer Institute has Korea’s first integrated treatment system that determines the best and optimal treatment for each patient through cooperation among the Department of Urology that offers specialized surgical treatments depending on the type of cancer; the Department of Oncology that performs pre-/post-operative palliative chemotherapy; the Department of Radiation Oncology that implements radical, adjuvant, or palliative radiation therapy; the Department of Radiology that takes a biopsy...
Bone Soft Tissue Sarcoma
AMC Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcoma Center has a collaboration system that allows specialists of the departments of orthopedic surgery, oncology, radiation oncology, pathology, and radiology with sufficient clinical experience and expertise to discuss together on how to decide the best treatment option for each patient.
Brain Tumor
The center provides customized treatment to each patient, including all aspects of brain tumor treatment such as skull base surgery, endoscopic operation, neuro-oncology and clinical trials, stereotactic radiosurgery, and neuroendocrinology.
Skin Cancer
At the Skin Cancer Center, a biopsy is taken on the same day when patients visit after consulting with specialists and coordinators and cooperation between specialists in dermatopathology and pathology provides the fastest and most accurate diagnosis.
Center for Precision Cancer Medicine
To boost the treatment and research activities, the Center for Precision Cancer Medicine shares patient treatment cases through the Molecular Tumor Board that was built for the first time in Korea in 2015 in cooperation with medical professionals of the Departments of Oncology, Pathology, and Biomedical Informatics, the Clinical Trial Center, and the ASAN-CCGD. The Center for...
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is conducted performing conditioning therapy or radiation therapy, injecting hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), offering post-operative care, and treating complications. It requires effective chemotherapy, excellent technologies to collect and store HSC, thorough infection control, and quality nursing services.
Doctors
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Kim, Kyu-pyo - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Parkinson Alzheimer Center, Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine
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Pancreatobiliary Cancer, Colon Cancer, Gastrointestinal Sarcoma
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Kim, Sang-we - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Brain Tumor Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Lung Cancer Center
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Lung Cancer, Thymus Tumor, Malignant Mesothelioma, Neurological Cancer
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Kim, Sun-young - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Gastroenterology, Colorectal Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine
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Colon Cancer
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Kim, Sung-bae - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Center for Cell Therapy, Head and Neck Cancer Center, Esophageal Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Center
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Breast Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Head & Neck Cancer, Gynecologic Cancer, Cell Therapy
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Kim, Jeong-eun - Departments
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Oncology, Colorectal Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Center, Sarcoma & Rare Cancer Center
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Breast Cancer, Sarcoma, Colon Cancer, Gynecologic Cancer
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Kim Tae Won - Departments
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Oncology, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Digestive Disease Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Colorectal Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine
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Colon Cancer
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Hyung-Don Kim - Departments
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Oncology, Liver Cancer Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Stomach Cancer Center
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Ryu, Min-hee - Departments
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Oncology, Digestive Disease Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Liver Center, Liver Cancer Center, Stomach Cancer Center
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Stomach Cancer, Liver Cancer, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, Gastrointestinal Sarcoma
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BAEK-YEOL RYOO - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Liver Center, Liver Cancer Center, Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer Center, Theranostics Center
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Stomach Cancer, Liver Cancer, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor, Gastrointestinal Sarcoma, Neuroendocrine Tumor
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Park, Sook-ryun - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Liver Center, Liver Cancer Center, Esophageal Cancer Center
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Stomach Cancer, Liver Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
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Inkeun Park - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Urologic Cancer Center
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Seo, Se-young - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Head and Neck Cancer Center, Life Care Center for Cancer Patients
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Song, Kyung-mee - Departments
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Oncology, Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine
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SHIN YEO KYEONG - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Breast Cancer Center
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Ahn, Jin-hee - Departments
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Oncology, Life Care Center for Cancer Patients, Breast Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Sarcoma & Rare Cancer Center
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Breast Cancer, Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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Changhoon Yoo - Departments
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Oncology, Liver Center, Liver Cancer Center, Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer Center, Sarcoma & Rare Cancer Center, Theranostics Center
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Oncological disease, Chemotherapy
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Yoon Dok Hyun - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, CAR T-cell Therapy Center, Hematologic Cancer & BMT Center
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Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, Head & Neck Cancer
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Yoon, Shin-kyo - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Brain Tumor Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Sarcoma & Rare Cancer Center, Theranostics Center, Lung Cancer Center
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Lung cancer, Solid tumor
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Lee, Dae-ho - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Lung Cancer Center, Skin Cancer center
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Lung Cancer, Thymus Tumor, Skin cancer, Malignant melanoma
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Lee, Jae-lyun - Departments
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Oncology, Digestive Disease Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Urologic Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine, Theranostics Center
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Urological Cancer
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Jae Cheol Lee - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Lung Cancer Center
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Lung Cancer
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Chang, Heung-moon - Departments
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Oncology, Digestive Disease Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer Center
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Pancreatobiliary Cancer
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Kyung Hae Jung - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Gynecologic Cancer Center, Breast Cancer Center
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Breast Cancer, Gynecologic Cancer
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Jeong, Jae-ho - Departments
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Oncology, Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Breast Cancer Center
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Biliary cancer, Pancreatic cancer, Breast cancer, Cancer of Unknown Primary Site
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HYEHYUN JEONG - Departments
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Oncology, Biliary Tract & Pancreatic Cancer Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Breast Cancer Center
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HYUNGWOO CHO - Departments
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Oncology, CAR T-cell Therapy Center, Brain Tumor Center, AMC Cancer Institute, Hematologic Cancer & BMT Center
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Choi, Chang-min - Departments
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Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Lung Cancer Center
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Lung Cancer, Therapeutic Endoscopy
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JAEWON HYUNG - Departments
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Oncology, CAR T-cell Therapy Center, Stomach Cancer Center, Hematologic Cancer & BMT Center
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Hong, Yong-sang - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Colorectal Cancer Center, Center for Personalized Cancer Medicine
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Colon Cancer, Sarcoma, Skin cancer
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KIM GYU HYUN - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute
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KIM SEONG-EUN - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute
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KIM SOYEON - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute, Oncology
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KIM JEONG EUN - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute
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BANG YEONG HAK - Departments
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Oncology, AMC Cancer Institute
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