Malabar Cancer Centre (MCC) in Thalassery, Kannur district is an autonomous not-for-profit institution under Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of Kerala.

[4] In 2018, then Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan has announced that the Malabar Cancer Center will be upgraded to RCC standards.

[3] The Diplomate of National Board (DNB) Course in oncology was started in 2017 as part of the upgradation of MCC, a Research Center under the Kerala University of Health Sciences, to a Post Graduate Institute.

[6] In June 2022, the Ministry of Kerala declared the Malabar Cancer Center as the Post Graduate Institute of Oncology Sciences and Research.

[8] As of 2022, the Malabar Cancer Center is the only government-run institution in Kerala to perform Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in children.