- The Cancer center provides treatments for all kinds of malignancies including breast, Gastrointestinal head and neck, lung, gynecologic malignancies, Brain Tumors, Genitourinary tract, Malignant Hematology. Care is provided in a site-specific manner and after discussion of cases in tumor boards.
- The Center is provides palliative care consults, and benign hematology consults to other patients admitted at KAMC.
- We run joined meeting with other specialties (e.g. infectious disease & hematopathology to discuss the cases in weekly basis.
- The center have done many conferences, symposium and workshops in hematology and oncology and we were active partners in other conferences as well either as speakers or chairperson.
- The center have established the Medical oncology and hematology fellowship program that has been approved by Saudi commission for health specialties since 2017. The radiation oncology fellowship is expected.
- The center celebrate the Cancer awareness day in collaboration with other facility in KAMC in conjunction with World Cancer Day as well as Survivorship of cancer patient meeting.
- We were keen in the oncology center to do many motivation activities for patient in collaboration with the department of social services including lectures and courses e.g. chess championship under the supervision of Saudi federation for chess
- We started the autologous stem cell transplantation since November 2017.
- Our plan to have a tumor registry.
Conferences:- Cancer during Pregnancy conference, December 6, 2018, Jeddah Oncology center
- Radiation Oncology Techniques workshop, November 8, 2018, Jeddah Oncology center
- Annual oncology/hematology conference
- Cancer day (February of each year)
Activities of Palliative Care:Breaking bad news workshop Pain management courses Palliative care and home health conference Training of Rotating Residents for different specialties
Weekly Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Meeting “ Tuesday”
Weekly Education Activities “ Thursday”
Continuous educational development for Palliative consultant e.g. “external conferences, internal symposiums, etc.”
Leader of the Last Phase system module for Health Vision 2030 for, western region
;One of the Model of care first cluster for the last phase including 4 hospitals “ KAMC, IBN SINA Hospital, King FAISAL Hospital, MCH and 11 PCs” Plan to open 5 to 10 beds for each hospital
Participating in designing and facilitating the disposition of Acute, Chronic and Hospice services between the Hospitals, PCs and HHC
Education Program: Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy Scientific Day December 3, 2017, Jeddah Oncology center.
The center was active in organizing multiple educational workshops and conferences, and this culminated in hosting the prestigious “Best of ASCO” for the year 2014.
The center pays special attention to continuous medical education, and we have weekly educational lectures, we also participate in regional journal clubs, and there is monthly review of all mortality cases and special attention is paid to morbidity cases.
The center gained recognition by the Saudi Counsel for Health Specialties as a center of training for Medical oncology fellowship program in 2013 and recently Hematology fellowship program in 2017.
The center paid special attention to research and our physicians presented original research at different national and international meetings, and published papers in peer reviewed journals.
