Medical Services & Research Centers
- ○ Comprehensive Cancer Institute
- Multidisciplinary team approach
- Outstanding survival rate of gastric cancer patients (30% higher than MSKCC, USA)
- 5-year survival rate was studied on 4,177 cancer patients from 1997 to 2012, and the 5-year survival rate of liver cancer patients treated at Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital stood at 30%, which is higher than the United States’ 16.6%, Canada’s 20.0% and Japan’s 27.9%
○ Organ Transplant Center
- The 1st kidney transplant in Korea (1969)
- The 1st post-BMT liver transplant in Korea (2002)
- The 1st small intestine transplant (2004)
- The 1st successful modified multi-organ transplant in Korea (2014)
- Performed 932 cases of liver transplant & 2,588 cases of kidney transplant (as of 2015)
○ Blood & Marrow Transplantation Center
- Asia’s largest BMT Center in terms of quality & quantity
- The 1st allogenic marrow transplant in Korea (1983)
- Performs 500 cases of BMT yearly
- Asia’s first hospital to perform 6,400 hematopoietic stem cell transplants (2015.7)
○ Eye Center
- The 1st cornea transplant in Korea (1980)
- The largest Eye Bank & Optic Science Research Lab in Korea (founded in 1994)
- 4000 cases of intraocular lens insertion (since 2013)
○ Cardio-Cerebro-Vascular Center
- Open heart surgery using cardioplegic solution on 11-year-old boy (1978)
- Hybrid operation room opened, and it can cater to all types of vascular surgery, surgical operations and internal medicine procedure. (2015.11)
- 6,080 cases of interventional procedures per year
○ Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Center
- Introduction of the 4th generation Xi Da Vinci Robot (2009)
- Fibroid Center became the first healthcare institution in Korea to perform more than 500 cases of Da Vinci Robot assisted surgery (2015.7)
- Performed the 2,000 robotic surgery (as of 2016.8)
○ Pectus Excavatum Clinic
- The largest number of minimal invasive pectus excavatum surgery performed in the world : more than 4,000 cases (450 cases annually)
- Since performing the first Nuss procedure in 1999 for the first time in Korea, Professor Hyung-Joo Park is treating about 70% of domestic patients suffering from pectus excavatum. He holds the record of performing the highest number of surgeries both domestically and internationally.
○ Top notch medical equipment
- 3rd generation surgical robot (Da Vinci), Robot angiography, TomoTherapy, PET-CT, 3.0 Tesla MRI, 3D Navigation System CT, O-Arm, etc.
○ Reports by Major Media on Attracting Patients from the Middle East
- Abu Dhabi News Channel, “QanatAbudhabiAlawla” (2014.2.27.) : Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan visits Emirates patients in Seoul St. Mary’s hospital
- Aired on ROTANA Broadcast of Saudi Arabia (2015.10.15.) : Film on Korean medicine and excellency of SSMH
