Choosing Barts Cancer Centre

Why choose us

Barts Cancer Centre is one of the most advanced cancer centres in Europe. Our new building has a safe, welcoming and healing environment and we have some of the world’s leading cancer specialists, advanced treatments and state-of-the-art technology. Our patients have access to the latest cancer drugs through our outstanding experimental cancer medicine centre.

As a national referral centre, we accept referrals from all over the country, and in some cases, from further afield.

How we stand out

We are one of only two cancer centres in England treating patients with eye cancer, offering treatment options that were pioneered at Barts
We are one of only four NHS facilities in England to offer gamma knife treatment and the only one in London
We were the first centre to offer fertility-sparing surgery for cervical cancer
We are one of very few cancer centres in England with a fertility centre onsite
Our five linear accelerators will enable patients with all types of tumours to benefit from IGRT (image guided radiotherapy) with 2mm accuracy for the first time in the UK
We are one of the leading centres in England for treating blood cancers. Our stem cell transplant unit produces some of the best clinical outcomes in the world
We are one of a network of 17 experimental cancer medicine centres in the UK
We have some of the world’s most advanced diagnostic and treatment technologies