[Published] 2025/3/4 [Last updated] 2025/3/25
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NCC in Japan
- National Cancer Center (NCC) is a leading cancer treatment and research center in Japan.
- NCC has two hospitals and one Research Institute (RI).
- NCCH (Tsukiji) and NCCE (Kashiwa) have 560 and 450 in-patient beds, respectively (total; 1000).
- Each hospital has similar performance according to the in-patient capacity.
- In NCC-RI, fundamental basic research is main expertise. And also, a lot of translational researches are ongoing in collaboration with academia, pharma in Japan as well as overseas.

Our Vision & Strengths
- Early development of first/best-in-class drugs and novel therapies by participating in novel global FIH phase 1 trials.
- Integrate nationwide genomics operation from foundational basic science to translational and prevision medicine at phase 1 clinic.
- Tight link to NCCRI in order to collaborate with external stakeholders/partners involved in early phase drug development and translational research (academic centers, start-up and pharmaceutical companies).
NCC and the nationwide cancer care network
Turn-around time (from IRB submission to Contract) improved notably
Serial tumor biopsy in FIH

- Success rates of
- Pre-treatment biopsy: 98.6%
- On-treatment biopsy: 94.2%
Pre-treatment biopsy

On-treatment biopsy
