NCI-designated Cancer Center

NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of approximately 60 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.

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Two designations are recognized: Comprehensive Cancer Centers and Cancer Centers. As of 2005, there are 39 Comprehensive Cancer Centers and 22 Cancer Centers.

Comprehensive Cancer Centers are the more restrictive of the two types. These facilities must demonstrate expertise in each of three areas: laboratory, clinical, and behavioral and population-based research. Comprehensive Cancer Centers are expected to initiate and conduct early phase, innovative clinical trials and to participate in the NCI's cooperative groups by providing leadership and recruiting patients for trials. Comprehensive Cancer Centers must also conduct activities in outreach and education, and provide information on advances in healthcare for both healthcare professionals and the public.

Cancer Centers generally conduct a combination of basic, population sciences, and clinical research, and are encouraged to stimulate collaborative research involving more than one field of study. Several of these centers conduct only laboratory research and do not provide patient care.

List of Comprehensive Cancer Centers

• Alabama: University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center - Website
• Arizona:
  • Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) - Website
  • Mayo Clinic Cancer Center—Scottsdale - Website
• California:
  • Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Irvine (Orange, CA) - Website
  • City of Hope (Duarte, CA) - Website
  • Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) - Website
  • Rebecca and John Moores University of California, San Diego Cancer Center - Website
  • University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center - Website
  • USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital (Los Angeles, CA) - Website

• Colorado: University of Colorado Cancer Center (Aurora, CO) - Website
• Connecticut: Yale Cancer Center (New Haven, CT) - Website
• District of Columbia: Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University (Washington,DC) - Website
• Florida:
  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute at the University of South Florida (Tampa,FL) - Website
  • Mayo Clinic Cancer Center—Jacksonville - Website
• Illinois:
  • The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL) - Website
  • University of Chicago Cancer Research Center (Chicago, IL) - Website
• Iowa:
  • The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at The University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA) - Website
• Maryland:
  • Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD) - Website
• Massachusetts:
  • Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Boston, MA) - Website
• Michigan:
  • Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Operating the Meyer L. Prentis Comprehensive Cancer Center of Metropolitan Detroit) - Website
  • University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Ann Arbor, MI) - Website
• Minnesota:
  • Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (Rochester, MN) - Website
  • The Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) - Website
• Missouri:
  • Siteman Cancer Center of the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO) - Website
• New Hampshire:
  • Norris Cotton Cancer Center of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NH) - Website

• New Jersey:
  • The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey) - Website

• New York:
  • Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY) - Website
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY) - Website
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, NY) - Website
• North Carolina:
  • Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC) - Website
  • Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (Durham, NC) - Website
  • UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chapel Hill, NC) - Website

• Ohio:
  • Ireland Cancer Center (Cleveland, OH) - Website
  • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute) (Columbus, OH) - Website

• Pennsylvania:
  • Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA) - Website
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, PA) - Website
  • Penn State Cancer Institute at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center (Hershey, PA)
  • The Cancer Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (Pittsburgh, PA) - Website

• Tennessee:
  • The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center of Vanderbilt University(Nashville, TN) - Website

• Texas:
  • The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston, TX) - Website

• Vermont:
  • Vermont Cancer Center of the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT) - Website

• Washington:
  • Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle, WA) - Website

• Wisconsin:
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison Comprehensive Cancer Center (Madison, WI) - Website

List of Cancer Centers

This list includes facilities that are strictly laboratories and do not provide patient services, marked as "laboratory only"

• California
  • The Burnham Institute (La Jolla, CA) - Website
  • UC Davis Cancer Center (Sacramento, CA) - Website
  • The Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, CA) - Website - laboratory only
• Hawaii: Cancer Research Center of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI) - Website
• Indiana:
  • Indiana University Cancer Center (Indianapolis, IN) - Website
  • Purdue Cancer Center (West Lafayette, IN) - Website - laboratory only
• Maine:
  • The Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) - Website - laboratory only
• Massachusetts:
  • MIT Center for Cancer Research (Cambridge, MA) - Website
• Nebraska:
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Cancer Center (Omaha, NE) - Website
• New York:
  • Albert Einstein Cancer Center (Bronx, NY) - Website
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, NY) - Website - laboratory only
  • New York University (NYU) Cancer Institute (New York, NY) - Website
• Oregon:
  • The Oregon Health Sciences University Cancer Institute (Portland, OR) - Website
• Pennsylvania:
  • Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA) - Website
  • Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, PA) - Website

• Tennessee:
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (Memphis, TN) - Website

• Texas:
  • San Antonio Cancer Institute of Cancer Therapy & Research Center - Website and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio - Website

• Utah:
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute of the University of Utah (Salt Lake City, UT) - Website

• Virginia:
  • Massey Cancer Center of Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) - Website
  • The Cancer Center at The University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA) - Wesbite