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National Comprehensive Cancer Network
Non-profit organization in the U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is an alliance of 33[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. John W. Sweetenham, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASCO, from UT Southwestern Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, is chairman of the NCCN Board of Directors.[2] It publishes a peer-reviewed medical journal called Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
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History
The NCCN was publicly announced in 1995.[3]
The first edition of the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network was published in 2003.[3]
NCCN Member Institutions
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Experts from the 33 NCCN Member Institutions are recognized for dealing with complex, aggressive, or rare cancers.[1]
The 33 NCCN Member Institutions are:
- Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania
- Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine
- 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 | Mass General Cancer Center
- Duke Cancer Institute
- Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center
- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
- Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
- Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center
- Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Moffitt Cancer Center
- O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- Stanford Cancer Institute
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
- The UChicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
- University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- UC Davis 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 Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
- University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital
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