NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of approximately 64 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute.

Two designations are recognized: Comprehensive Cancer Centers and Cancer Centers. As of 2012, there are 41 Comprehensive Cancer Centers and 23 designated 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.

  Comprehensive cancer centers

  H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute

  Comer Children's Hospital at The University of Chicago

  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

• Alabama: University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
• Arizona:
  • Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona (Tucson)
  • Mayo Clinic Cancer Center—Scottsdale

• California:
  • Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the UC Irvine Medical Center (Orange)
  • City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte)
  • Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles
  • Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego
  • UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco
  • UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center of the UC Davis Health System (Davis)
  • USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and Hospital of the University of Southern California (Los Angeles)

• Colorado: University of Colorado Cancer Center (Aurora)

• Connecticut: Yale Cancer Center (New Haven)

• District of Columbia: Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington)

• Florida:
  • H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
  • Mayo Clinic Cancer Center—Jacksonville

• Illinois:
  • The Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University (Chicago, IL)
  • University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chicago, IL)

• Iowa: The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at The University of Iowa (Iowa City, IA)

• Maryland: Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD)

• Massachusetts: Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Boston, MA)

• Michigan:
  • Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit, MI)
  • University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center (Ann Arbor, MI)

• Minnesota:
  • Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (Rochester, MN)
  • The Cancer Center at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN)

• Missouri: Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, MO)

• New Hampshire: Norris Cotton Cancer Center of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, NH)

• New Jersey: The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (New Brunswick, New Jersey)
• New York:
  • Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center (New York, NY)
  • Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY)
  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute (Buffalo, NY)

• North Carolina:
  • Comprehensive Cancer Center of Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, NC)
  • Duke Cancer Institute(Durham, NC)
  • UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chapel Hill, NC)

• Ohio:
  • Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case Western Reserve University; Seidman Cancer Center, University Hospitals, Case Medical Center; Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic) (Cleveland, OH)
  • The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute) (Columbus, OH)

• Pennsylvania:
  • Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
  • Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia)
  • University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute/UPMC Cancer Centers (Pittsburgh)

• Tennessee: Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center of Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN)
  • St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (Memphis, TN)

• Texas:
  • University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)

• Washington: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (Seattle)

• Wisconsin: UW Carbone Cancer Center of the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (Madison)

  Cancer centers

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

• California
  • The Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (La Jolla, CA) - laboratory only
  • UC Davis Cancer Center (Sacramento, CA)
  • Salk Institute for Biological Studies (La Jolla, CA) - laboratory only
  • The Stanford Cancer Center (Stanford, CA)
• Georgia:
  • Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University (Atlanta, GA)
• Hawaii: Cancer Research Center of Hawaii (Honolulu, HI)
• Indiana:
  • Indiana University Cancer Center (Indianapolis, IN)
  • Purdue Cancer Center (West Lafayette, IN) - laboratory only
• Kansas:
  • The University of Kansas Cancer Center (Kansas City, KS)
• Maine:
  • Jackson Laboratory (Bar Harbor, ME) - laboratory only
• Maryland:
  • University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center (Baltimore, MD)
• Massachusetts:
  • MIT Center for Cancer Research (Cambridge, MA) - laboratory only
• Nebraska:
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center Eppley Cancer Center (Omaha, NE)
• New Mexico:
  • University of New Mexico Cancer Treatment Center (Albuquerque
• New York:
  • Albert Einstein Cancer Center (Bronx, NY)
  • Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (Cold Spring Harbor, NY) - laboratory only
  • New York University (NYU) Cancer Institute (New York, NY)
• Oregon:
  • The Knight Cancer Institute (Portland, OR)
• Pennsylvania:
  • Kimmel Cancer Center of Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, PA)
  • Wistar Institute (Philadelphia, PA) - 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
  • Howard C. Simmons Cancer Center of University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

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

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

  Cancer Centers in Germany

The US-system of NCI-designated Cancer Centers is successfully adopted by the German Cancer Aid in Europe, founded by the late German First Lady Mildred Scheel. The daughter of an US-American mother supported from the very beginning the German-American cooperation in fighting cancer. The Federal Minister of Health (Germany), Philipp Rösler (FDP), opened on 2nd November 2010 in Heidelberg the largest German NCI (Nationales Centrum Tumorerkrankungen). The cost of the new building of 29 million euro are financed with private donation from the people to the German Cancer Aid. This organization is financing more than ten such Cancer Centers.

  External links

• NCI-designated Cancer Centers