Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center can now add the word “Comprehensive” to its logo.
Shelton “Shelley” Earp said he will step down as director of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center effective June 2024.
Siteman Cancer Center, based at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has earned a Merit Extension Award from NCI.
Progress against cancer, as brought about by high quality academic cancer centers, requires individual excellence from experts who apply distinct, highly specific skill sets to a common goal within the cancer center. The cancer center coordinates and supports these efforts.
Community Outreach and Engagement (COE), now augmented with the Plan to Enhance Diversity (PED), is critical and central to the impact of NCI-designated cancer centers, and both are set forth as required components for the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG).
The Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health is in imminent danger of losing its Comprehensive designation, and members of the center’s External Advisory Board are urging the leadership of the parent institution to act fast.
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has been granted a two-year merit extension of its Cancer Center Support Grant from NCI. The grant is MSK’s oldest and largest, and the one which provides its designation as one of 53 Comprehensive Cancer Centers nationwide.
According to the NCI study, the number of people who live outside the catchment areas of NCI-designated cancer centers is estimated at about 40 million. According to the AACI-Jefferson study, the number of people who live outside catchment areas of the AACI member cancer centers is estimated at about 25 million.
Some things are known to grow well in Kansas. Some things aren’t. Over the past 18 years, Roy Jensen has been told time and again that it made no sense to even try to grow an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Kansas. Yet, he did the only thing he could. Persist. Stubbornly. The University of... […]
NCI has truncated the just-renewed five-year Cancer Center Support Grant held by Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center as that institution undergoes a bumpy transition of leadership—in the midst of a challenging integration with Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute.
