This is the only tertiary level center of the country engaged in multidisciplinary cancer patient management.

[2][3] It started its activity in a tin-shade building of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital in 1982, soon it is shifted to the present location at Mohakhali in 1986.

[6] In 1994 the cancer institute renamed as National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital (NICRH)[7][8] and the first radiation treatment was applied to a patient in 1995 with a Cobalt 60 Teletherapy machine.

[9] With the provision of support from the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), the up-gradation works of this Institute to 300 bedded Center has been completed.

consented to convert NICRH as a 500-bed hospital and the work is almost completed.