NCI-designated Cancer Center
NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of 69 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.[1]
Three designations are recognized: Comprehensive Cancer Centers, Cancer Centers, and Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers. As of 2015, there are 45 Comprehensive Cancer Centers, 17 Cancer Centers, and 7 Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers. Receiving the NCI-designation places cancer centers among the top 4 percent of the approximately 1500 cancer centers in the United States.
The standards for 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.
Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers conduct only laboratory research and do not provide patient treatment.
Comprehensive cancer centers
- Alabama (1): UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Arizona (1): The University of Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona (Tucson)
- California (7):
- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Irvine
- City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte)
- UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles
- UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco
- UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Davis (Sacramento)
- USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles)
- Colorado (1): University of Colorado Cancer Center (Aurora)
- Connecticut (1): Yale Cancer Center at Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven)
- District of Columbia (1): Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University (Washington)
- Florida (1): Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of South Florida (Tampa)
- Illinois (2):
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University (Chicago)
- University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chicago)
- Iowa (1): Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa (Iowa City)
- Maryland (1): Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore)
- Massachusetts (1): Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Boston)
- Michigan (2):
- Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit)
- University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Ann Arbor)
- Minnesota (2):
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (Rochester)
- Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota (Minneapolis)
- Missouri (1): Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis)
- New Hampshire (1): Norris Cotton Cancer Center of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon)
- New Jersey (1): The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (New Brunswick)
- New Mexico (1): University of New Mexico Cancer Treatment Center (Albuquerque)
- New York (3):
- Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (New York)
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York)
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo)
- North Carolina (3):
- Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem)
- Duke Cancer Institute at Duke University (Durham)
- UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chapel Hill)
- Ohio (3):
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case Western Reserve University; Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center
- Taussig Cancer Institute, (Cleveland Clinic) (Cleveland)
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute) (Columbus)
- Pennsylvania (3):
- Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
- Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia)
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute/UPMC Cancer Centers (Pittsburgh)
- Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia)
- Tennessee (2):
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center of Vanderbilt University (Nashville)
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis)
- Texas (3):
- Dan L Duncan Cancer Center at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston)
- Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
- Utah (1): Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (Salt Lake City)
- Washington (1): Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium (Seattle)
- Wisconsin (1): University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics (Madison)
Cancer centers
This list includes facilities that are strictly research institutes and do not provide patient services, marked as "laboratory only"
- California
- The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla) - laboratory only
- UC Davis Cancer Center (Sacramento)
- Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla) - laboratory only
- The Stanford Cancer Center (Stanford, CA)
- Georgia:
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Atlanta)
- Hawaii: University of Hawaii Cancer Center (Honolulu)
- Indiana:
- Indiana University Cancer Center (Indianapolis)
- Purdue Cancer Center (West Lafayette) - laboratory only
- Kansas:
- The University of Kansas Cancer Center (Kansas City)
- Kentucky:
- Markey Cancer Center at the University of Kentucky (Lexington)
- Maine:
- Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, Maine, and Farmington, Connecticut) - laboratory only
- Maryland:
- University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center (Baltimore)
- Massachusetts:
- David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research (Cambridge) - laboratory only
- Nebraska:
- New York:
- Albert Einstein Cancer Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Bronx)
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor) - laboratory only
- Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at New York University (formerly the NYU Cancer Institute) (New York)
- Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai Health System (New York)
- Oregon:
- The Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (Portland)
- Pennsylvania:
- Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia)
- Wistar Institute (Philadelphia) - laboratory only
- South Carolina:
- Medical University of South Carolina Hollings Cancer Center
- Texas:
- San Antonio Cancer Institute of Cancer Therapy & Research Center and the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Virginia
- Massey Cancer Center of Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond)
- The Cancer Center at the University of Virginia (Charlottesville)