TEHRAN - Motamed Cancer Institute was ranked first among all research centers in the field of cancer, both clinical and biomedical, throughout the country.

According to an assessment of the Ministry of Health, Treatment, and Medical Education, the institute also ranked second among all clinical research centers with independent funding and experience of more than 10 years, regardless of the subject of activity, IRNA reported.

Some 190 other clinical centers are placed after the cancer research center of Motamed Cancer Institute.

Also, among the total of 833 private and government research centers under the Ministry of Health, the breast cancer research center of the Institute has been evaluated as one of the top 10 centers.

Various indicators such as effectiveness, patents, interdisciplinary theses, five-year H index, total five-year documents, articles with international cooperation, articles published in the top 25% of publications, and research output have been among the indices of the assessment.