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Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (Washington, D.C.). Established in 1970, the center was the 16th National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, named in 1974, only four years after opening its doors. The center is a Blue Distinction Center for Complex…

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (Lebanon, N.H.). The Norris Cotton Cancer Center at DHMC is designated by the National Cancer Institute as one of nine Centers of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence in the country as well as being designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center.…

Contra Costa Regional Medical Center (Martinez, Calif.). Contra Costa’s Cancer Program has received an Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer twice, first in 2009, when it was one of only three programs in the…

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center. The Cancer and Blood Diseases Institute at Cincinnati Children’s was ranked No. 2 in the country for cancer care by U.S. News & World Report for 2015-16. The institute is one of the nation’s largest…

Christiana Care Health Services (Wilmington, Del.). The Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute, part of Christiana Care, was one of the first sites awarded in the National Cancer Institute’s Community Cancer Centers Program and has become a national…

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia was ranked as the No. 3 pediatric cancer hospital in the nation for 2015-16 by U.S. News & World Report. The hospital’s Center for Childhood Cancer Research was established in 2007…

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles). The Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai was ranked as one of the best cancer programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report for 2015-16. The institute includes dedicated specialized brain tumor,…

Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca (N.Y.). The Cayuga Cancer Center has maintained continuous approval status from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer since 1985. Additionally, the center received the Outstanding Achievement Award this year and is certified with…

Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System will build a $110 million cancer center as part of a $500 million expansion and neighborhood improvement initiative on 300 acres in Detroit.

Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center (Milwaukee). Aurora Health Care earned the Outstanding Achievement Award from the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer in 2015. The system’s musculoskeletal oncology program is located at Aurora St. Luke’s, where clinicians treat adult…