The cancer program at KHSC works with regional partners to provide care for over 550,000 patients from across southeastern Ontario, an area that ranges from Trenton to Smiths Falls.

KHSC offers experimental drug trials, radiation therapy, and high-complexity procedures like stem cell therapy. It supports satellite clinics and sets the standards of practice, all while training future generations of health care workers and contributing to life-saving research.

The cancer program at KHSC is driving innovation and making a real difference in the lives of patients.

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KHSC expands liver cancer treatment with cutting-edge Y90 therapy

Kingston Health Sciences Centre (KHSC) is now home to one of the most advanced treatments for liver cancer in Canada. Named after the radioactive isotope it uses, Yttrium-90, (Y-90) it’s a minimally invasive procedure that precisely delivers a knockout blow to tumors from within.
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Cutting-edge imaging, local impact

Patients in southeastern Ontario now have access to one of the most advanced diagnostic imaging tools available, following the launch of KHSC's new PET-CT program.
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Cancer care for the whole patient

Learn why This is the Place where psychosocial oncology empowers people living with cancer.
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Using cellular therapy to support patients with cancer

Learn how KHSC's Autologous Stem Cell Transplant Program is using stem cell therapy to support patients with Cancer.
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Cancer care at KHSC, by the numbers

5 sites across Southeastern Ontario
550,000+ patients supported in 8 different communities
7000 new patients seen each, on average, each year
1000+ treatments and procedures, including chemotherapy and immunotherapy, conducted yearly at satellite sites
2151 surgeries completed to treat cancer in 2023, 45 using surgical robotics
8327 radiation therapy procedures completed last year at KHSC
125 stem cell procedures completed annually, on average

Cancer care news and stories

Read about the people and procedures that our redefining cancer care in southeastern Ontario. 

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We are southeastern Ontario’s leading provider of complex, acute and specialty care., and one of Canada’s top teaching and research hospitals.
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