City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center earns highest ranking from National Cancer Institute
$23 million also awarded for research, training and community outreach
- $23 million also awarded for research, training and community outreach
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- City of Hope, one of the largest cancer research and treatment organizations in the United States, announced that its comprehensive cancer center has received the highest rating possible for a U.S. cancer center — "exceptional" — by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the federal government's principal agency for cancer research and training. - The ranking puts the center in the top echelon of the nation's 53 NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers.
- City of Hope has held the prestigious NCI designation since it became an NCI-designated cancer center in 1981.
- City of Hope's Los Angeles campus, located in Duarte, is the location of its NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, which is the research and innovation hub for its national cancer system.