National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is an alliance of 30[1] cancer centers in the United States, most of which are designated by the National Cancer Institute (one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health) as comprehensive cancer centers. It is a non-profit organization with offices in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. Ronald S. Walters, MD, MBA, MHA, MS, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is chairman of the NCCN Board of Directors.[2] It publishes the peer-reviewed medical journal Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
NCCN Member Institutions
Experts from the 30 NCCN Member Institutions are recognized for dealing with complex, aggressive, or rare cancers.[1]
The 30 NCCN Member Institutions are:
- Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania
- Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Case Comprehensive Cancer Center/University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute
- City of Hope National Medical Center
- Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- Duke Cancer Institute
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
- The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Stanford Cancer Institute
- University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
- UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Colorado Cancer Center
- University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital
See also
References
- ^ a b "NCCN Member Institutions". Retrieved November 20, 2018.
- ^ "About NCCN". Retrieved March 23, 2019.
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