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'''NCI-designated Cancer Centers''' are a group of 72 [[cancer]] research institutions in the [[United States]] supported by the [[National Cancer Institute]].<ref name="NCI">{{cite web|url=http://www.cancer.gov/research/nci-role/cancer-centers|title=NCI-Designated Cancer Centers|website=National Cancer Institute|date=31 May 2024|access-date=8 November 2024}}</ref>

== Program ==
Three designations are recognized: '''Comprehensive Cancer Centers''', '''Clinical Cancer Centers''', and '''Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers'''.  As of November 2024, there are 57 Comprehensive Cancer Centers, 8 Clinical Cancer Centers, and 7 Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers.<ref name="NCI" /> Almost all are associated with a university. Receiving the NCI-designation places cancer centers among the top 4 percent of the approximately 1,500 cancer centers in the United States.

The standards for ''Comprehensive Cancer Centers'' are the most restrictive of the 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. Comprehensive cancer centers may apply for up to $1.5 million per year from the Department of Health and Human Services.<ref name=PAR17/> 

''Clinical 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. Clinical cancer centers may apply for up to $1.4 million per year. 

''Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers'' conduct only laboratory research and do not provide patient treatment. Basic Laboratory Cancer Centers are more often affiliated with research institutes rather than universities. They are eligible to apply for up to $1.2 million per year.<ref name=PAR17/> 

Independent or freestanding cancer centers are entities unto themselves and are not considered to be part of a larger institution or university. The center’s administration controls all space, appointments, and budgets. These institutions may have university affiliations, but they remain administratively and financially distinct.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JCO.2002.07.574|title=Understanding Cancer Centers|first=Joseph V.|last=Simone|date=1 December 2002|journal=Journal of Clinical Oncology|volume=20|issue=23|pages=4503–4507|doi=10.1200/jco.2002.07.574|pmid=12454105}}</ref> 

The NCI also supports '''Consortium Centers''', wherein scientists and clinicians from multiple institutions enter into formal agreements to expand cancer research programs.<ref name=PAR17/> Importantly, Consortium Partners are not themselves considered NCI-designated.  The NCI has strict guidelines on how Consortium Partners can refer to their relationship with their parent Consortium Center. 

These grants fund shared resources to further the goals of the National Cancer Institute. Some of these include the administration of cancer research programs, training activities, core facilities with technology shared by investigators, and clinical trial management services.<ref name="PAR17">{{cite web|title=PAR-17-095: Cancer Center Support Grants (CCSGs) for NCI-designated Cancer Centers (P30)|url=https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-17-095.html|website=grants.nih.gov}}</ref>

In 2015, more than 353,000 new patients were enrolled in a clinical trial at an NCI-designated Cancer Center.<ref>{{cite web|title=DT3 - OCCWebApp 2.1.0|url=https://cancercenters.cancer.gov/DT/DT3|website=cancercenters.cancer.gov}}</ref>

=== Designation process ===
Cancer centers must renew their status with the NIH every 5 years. The NIH funds cancer centers through a [[NIH grant|P30 Cancer Center Support Grant]] (CCSG) mechanism.<ref name=PAR17/> To be eligible to apply, a cancer center must receive at least $10 million in cancer research funding annually. Preparation for these grant applications can be extensive. The most recent grant application prepared by [[MD Anderson Cancer Center]] took 24 months to prepare and ran to 2,963 pages.<ref>{{cite web|title=treat the immune system, attack the cancer|url=https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/annual-report/annual-report-2013/the-cancer-center-support-grant.html|website=MD Anderson Cancer Center|language=en}}</ref>

The NCI considers the certain characteristics essential to a cancer center, and requires that applications address the institutions' resources in the areas of: Physical Space, Organizational Capabilities, Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Coordination, Cancer Focus, Institutional Commitment, Center Director.<ref name=PAR17/>

== List of centers ==
Source: NCI<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cancer.gov/research/nci-role/cancer-centers/find|title=Find an NCI-Designated Cancer Center|website=National Cancer Institute|access-date=8 November 2024}}</ref>
===Comprehensive cancer centers===
[[Image:Moffitt Cancer Center viewed from east.JPG|right|thumb|300px|[[H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute]]]]
[[Image:Kiar 04-25-05 9027RT.jpg|right|thumb|Comer Children's Hospital at The University of Chicago]]
[[File:Bendheim Sloan-Kettering 1 Av 74 St jeh.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]]]]

*'''Alabama''' (1): [https://www.uab.edu/onealcancercenter/ O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center] at the [[University of Alabama at Birmingham]]
*'''Arizona''' (2):
**The [[University of Arizona]] Cancer Center (Tucson)
**[[Mayo Clinic Cancer Center]]{{efn|name=mayo|Mayo Clinic Cancer Center has facilities in Arizona, Florida and Minnesota, but is counted as a single institution.}} (Phoenix) (independent)
*'''California''' (8):
**[[Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center]] at the [[University of California, Irvine]]
**[[City of Hope National Medical Center]] ([[Duarte, California|Duarte]]) (independent)
**[[University of California, Los Angeles]] [[Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center]]
**[[University of California, San Diego]] [[Moores Cancer Center]] (La Jolla)
**[[University of California, San Francisco]] [[UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center|Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center]]
**[[University of California, Davis]] [[UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center|Comprehensive Cancer Center]] (Sacramento)
**[[USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center|Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center]] at the [[University of Southern California]] (Los Angeles)
**[[Stanford Cancer Institute]] at [[Stanford University]] (Stanford)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/cancer/about.html|title=About Us|website=Stanford Medicine Cancer Institute}}</ref>
*'''Colorado''' (1): [[University of Colorado Cancer Center]] ([[Aurora, Colorado|Aurora]])
*'''Connecticut''' (1): [[Yale Cancer Center]] at [[Yale University]] (New Haven)
*'''District of Columbia''' (1): [[Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center]] at [[Georgetown University]] (Washington)<ref>{{Cite web|title=About Our NCI Designation|url=https://lombardi.georgetown.edu/about/comprehensive/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center|language=en-US}}</ref>
*'''Florida''' (2): 
**[[Mayo Clinic Cancer Center]]{{efn|name=mayo}} (Jacksonville) (independent)
**[[H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute | Moffitt Cancer Center]] (Tampa)
*'''Georgia''' (1): [[Winship Cancer Institute]] of [[Emory University]] (Atlanta)
*'''Illinois''' (2):
**[[University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center]]
**[[Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center]] at [[Northwestern University]] (Chicago)
*'''Indiana''' (1): [[Indiana University School of Medicine|Indiana University]] Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center (Indianapolis)
*'''Iowa''' (1): Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at [[University of Iowa]] (Iowa City)
*'''Kansas''' (1): [[University of Kansas Cancer Center]] ([[Kansas City, Kansas|Kansas City]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.kucancercenter.org/research/transformative-research/nci-designation|title=University of Kansas Cancer Center - NCI Designation}}</ref>
* '''Kentucky''' (1): [[University of Kentucky]] Markey Cancer Center (Lexington)
*'''Maryland''' (2): 
**[[Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]] (Baltimore)
**[[University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center]] (Baltimore)
*'''Massachusetts''' (1): [[Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center]] with [[Harvard University]] (Boston)
*'''Michigan''' (2):
**[[Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute]] with [[Wayne State University]] (Detroit)  
**[[University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center]] (Ann Arbor)
*'''Minnesota''' (2):
**[[Mayo Clinic Cancer Center]]{{efn|name=mayo}} (Rochester) (independent)
**[[Masonic Cancer Center]] at the [[University of Minnesota, Twin Cities]]
*'''Missouri''' (1): [[Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center]] at [[Barnes-Jewish Hospital]] and [[Washington University in St. Louis]]
*'''New Hampshire''' (1): [[Dartmouth Cancer Center]] of [[Dartmouth College]] (Lebanon)
*'''New Jersey''' (1): [[Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey]] at [[Rutgers University]] (New Brunswick)
*'''New Mexico''' (1): [[University of New Mexico Cancer Research Building|University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center]] (Albuquerque)
*'''New York''' (5):
**[[Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center]] of [[New York-Presbyterian Hospital]] and [[Columbia University]] (New York)
**[[Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center]] (New York) (independent)
**Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center at the [[Albert Einstein College of Medicine]]
**Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at [[NYU Langone Medical Center#Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center|NYU Langone Medical Center]] and [[New York University]]
**[[Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center]] with the [[University at Buffalo]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://medicine.buffalo.edu/departments/radiation-oncology/about/affiliations.html|title=Hospital and Institute Affiliation}}</ref>
*'''North Carolina''' (3):
** Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center at [[Wake Forest University]] (Winston-Salem)
** [[Duke Cancer Institute]] at [[Duke University]] (Durham)
** [[UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center]] at [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
*'''Ohio''' (2):
**[[Case Comprehensive Cancer Center]] ([[Case Western Reserve University]], University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, & Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute)
**[[James Cancer Hospital|The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute]] at [[Ohio State University]] (Columbus)
* '''Oregon''' (1): [[Knight Cancer Institute]] at [[Oregon Health & Science University]] (Portland)
*'''Pennsylvania''' (4):
**[[Abramson Cancer Center]] at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] (Philadelphia)
**[[Fox Chase Cancer Center]] at [[Temple University]] (Philadelphia)
**Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at [[Thomas Jefferson University]] (Philadelphia)
**[[UPMC Hillman Cancer Center]] at the [[University of Pittsburgh]]

*'''Tennessee''' (2): 
**[[Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center]] at [[Vanderbilt University]] (Nashville)
**[[St. Jude Children's Research Hospital]] (Memphis) (independent)
*'''Texas''' (3):
** Dan L Duncan Cancer Center at [[Baylor College of Medicine]] (Houston)
** Harold C. Simmons Cancer Center at [[University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center]] (Dallas)
** The [[University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center]] (Houston) (independent)
*'''Utah''' (1): [[Huntsman Cancer Institute]] at the [[University of Utah]] (Salt Lake City)
*'''Virginia''' (2): 
**[[University of Virginia Cancer Center]] (Charlottesville) 
**[[VCU Massey Cancer Center|Massey Cancer Center]] at [[Virginia Commonwealth University]] (Richmond)
*'''Washington''' (1): [[Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center]] with [[University of Washington]] (Seattle) 
*'''Wisconsin''' (1): [[University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center]] at the [[University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics|University of Wisconsin-Madison]]

=== Clinical Cancer Centers ===

*'''Florida''' (2): 
** Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center of the [[Miller School of Medicine]] at the [[University of Miami]]
** [[UF Health Shands Cancer Hospital|University of Florida Health Cancer Center]] (Gainesville)
*'''Hawaii''' (1): [[John A. Burns School of Medicine|University of Hawaii]] Cancer Center ([[Honolulu]])
*'''Nebraska''' (1): [[University of Nebraska Medical Center]] [[Eppley Cancer Center|Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center]] (Omaha)
*'''New York''' (1): Tisch Cancer Institute at [[Mount Sinai Health System]] (New York)
* '''Oklahoma''' (1): [[OU_Medicine#Stephenson_Cancer_Center|Stephenson Cancer Center]] at [[University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center|University of Oklahoma]] (Oklahoma City)
*'''South Carolina''' (1): Hollings Cancer Center at the [[Medical University of South Carolina]] (Charleston)
*'''Texas''' (1): [[UT Health San Antonio Cancer Center|Mays Cancer Center]] at [[University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio]]

=== Basic laboratory cancer centers ===
* '''California''' (2):
** [[Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute]] (La Jolla) (independent)
** [[Salk Institute for Biological Studies]] (La Jolla)  (independent)
* '''Indiana''' (1): Purdue Cancer Center of [[Purdue University]] (West Lafayette)
*'''Massachusetts''' (1): [[David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research]] at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (Cambridge) 
*'''Maine''' (1): [[Jackson Laboratory]] (Bar Harbor and [[Farmington, Connecticut]]) (independent)
* '''New York''' (1): [[Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory]] (New York) (independent)
* '''Pennsylvania''' (1): [[Wistar Institute]] (Philadelphia) (independent)

==Notes==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.cancer.gov/research/nci-role/cancer-centers/find Find an NCI-designated Cancer Center]

[[Category:Cancer organizations based in the United States|National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center]]
[[Category:National Institutes of Health|Cancer Center]]