The Clinical Center University of Sarajevo is a leading professional, scientific and educational health institution in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The center employs 713 doctors, 544 of whom are specialists. Of the employees 36 are University Professors and 31 Assistant Professors. Moreover, 101 of the employees completed a Ph.D. and 122 an MSc. The above confirms the Center’s main role as a teaching hospital for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The Oncology Divison, which is a part of the Clinical Center University of Sarajevo, is the only comprehensive oncology center in the country and as such is offering the most advanced systemic treatment, surgery and radiotherapy techniques to our patients.
We are proud to be one of the first clinics in the region to establish multidisciplinary approach. Currently all oncological patients are presented and discussed at one of 14 multidisciplinary meeting held at clinic every week. The Oncology Divison KCUS provides inpatient, day care and outpatient services for cancer patients with different forms of solid tumors; with more than 400 patients circulating the Clinic on the daily basis.
Clinic has a huge experience in working with clinical trials. More that 70 trials were succesufully conducted in past 15 years at our clinic. In this context, the most profound experience of ours is in performing clinical trials in HER 2 positive breast cancer, where more than 130 of our patients were included in those, mostly pivotal trails. As for the lung cancer, we have had more than 100 patients in various indications in some of the most important trails, such as ALEX for ALK positive NSCLC. At the moment we are performing phase I, II and III clinical trails in adjuvant, neoadjuvant and metastatic setting. There are more than 40 clinical research projects active at any one time and high patient recruitment rates (7%) to these trials.
Very well equipped department of of radiation oncology is currently able to implement advanced techniques IMRT and VMAT as well as SRS whic are most commonly used for irradiation of the head and neck tumors, CNS tumors, prostate cancer, breast and lung cancer.
