Hospital type Cancer Care Founded 1997 | Phone +962 6 530 0460 Number of beds 180 | |
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Location Queen Rania Street, Amman, Jordan Care system Comprehensive Cancer Care Affiliated university . Agreements and partnerships:
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Lombardi Cancer Center of Georgetown University, USA
Moffitt Cancer Center, USA
The National Cancer Institute, Egypt
The Hospital for Sick Children, Canada
The Stefan Morsch Foundation, Germany
Susan G. Komen for the Cure, USA
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York, USA
University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan Website King Hussein Cancer Center Address King Hussein Cancer Center KHCC, Queen Rania Al Abdullah St 202, Amman 11941, Jordan Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hours Profiles | ||
A short film about king hussein cancer center
The King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) (Arabic مركز الملك حسين للسرطان), is a medical center in Amman, Jordan. It treats both adult and pediatric patients. KHCC treats over 3500 new cancer patients every year from Jordan and the region.
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- A short film about king hussein cancer center
- King hussein cancer center intensive care unit
- History
- Accreditations
- International affiliations
- Activities
- Fund raising expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro
- References
KHCC has established programs that focus on all stages of comprehensive cancer care: from prevention and early detection, through diagnosis and treatment, to palliative care. The King Hussein Cancer Foundation (KHCF), founded in 1997, undertakes various fundraising activities to support and maintain the mission of KHCC as a comprehensive cancer center of excellence. KHCF is a free-standing, independent, non-governmental, nonprofit organization established by a royal decree to combat cancer in Jordan and the Middle East region. The foundation and center is run by a board of trustees consisting of a dedicated group of prominent volunteers and chaired by HRH Princess Ghida Talal. The director general of KHCF is HRH Princess Dina Mired and Dr. Asem Mansour is the director general of KHCC.
King hussein cancer center intensive care unit
History
Prior to the mid-1980s, there was no infrastructure for treating cancer patients in Jordan. For quality care, wealthy patients sought treatment abroad, while those without means were treated locally, with limited resources and poor results.
In 1997, the Al-Amal Center, meaning "The Center of Hope", opened its doors. This much-needed cancer-specific hospital was established to provide the many patients in Jordan with quality care comparable to that offered in the West. To honor the late King Hussein, who had died of cancer, the center was renamed the King Hussein Cancer Center in 2002.
From 2002-2006, the hospital intensely focused on areas of quality control, and the recruitment of highly qualified staff. Patients, patient services, programs and staff exponentially increased at a rapid pace. The focus, from its inception, was to deliver the highest level of care in a safe environment.
In 2006, Mahmoud Sarhan became the director general and CEO of the King Hussein Cancer Center. Dr. Sarhan, a former professor of pediatrics in the Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplantation Program at Duke University, was an instrumental figure in the center’s establishment. He founded KHCC's bone marrow transplantation (BMT) program in 2003, a program which has become one of the largest and most successful BMT programs in the Middle East. It is one of the largest (performing approximately 100 bone marrow transplants each year) and most successful programs in the Middle East, achieving cure rates compatible with international standards. The program oversees both matched allogeneic and autologous transplants and performs transplants utilizing cord blood, making it the only program in Jordan and the second in the region that offers such a highly specialized procedure. Other non-cancer cases are also treated through the KHCC BMT program including thalassemia, aplastic anemia and other metabolic diseases.
Accreditations
International affiliations
Activities
In 2007, KHCF and KHCC were entrusted to lead the first national breast cancer program, Jordan Breast Cancer Program (JBCP), in partnership with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders. The main objectives of the program are to reduce morbidity and mortality from breast cancer through awareness campaigns, early detection and access to screening for all women in Jordan in order to shift the current state of diagnosis to the early stages of the disease, when it is most curable with high survival rates.
JBCP’s operations are managed by an executive board led by KHCC and KHCF which provides its direction and ensures the implementation of action plans. HRH Princess Dina Mired, director general of KHCF and Dr. Mahmoud Sarhan, director general of KHCC, together chair the Jordan Breast Cancer Committee and the executive board.
In 2010, the King Hussein Cancer Center and the American University of Beirut Medical Center signed a memorandum of understanding to create a joint program in research.
Fund raising expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro
A team of Jordanians went on an expedition to Mount Kilimanjaro in 2014 in an effort to support the cancer research initiatives of the King Hussein Cancer Center and collected $1.3 million.
The team was led by Mostafa Salameh; and others include Maha Amro, Iman Mutlaq, Raed Amr, Farah Yaseen, Russell Mills, Aysar Batayneh, Rania AbuKhader, Jesse Ruuttila, Sahar Jumean, Dani Marji, Zeena Kalaldeh, Zein Saraswatiji Salti, Saliba Amash, Omar Sawalha, Louay Shomaly, Helen Al Uzaizi, Dina Shoman, Zein Ammari Sunna, Eyad El-Shareef, Sima Najjar Hijjawi and Amals Hisham AlSadi.