The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center is committed to exploring and developing innovative ways to prevent and reduce cancer’s devastating effects through a collaborative research program involving more than 200 renowned researchers and physicians.

UChicago established the Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1973 following approval of the National Cancer Act, which strengthened efforts of the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Through its Cancer Centers Program, NCI currently supports 70 Cancer Centers — 50 of which are Comprehensive Cancer Centers distinguished by “scientific excellence and the capability to integrate a diversity of research approaches to focus on the problem of cancer.” Comprehensive Cancer Centers share a common goal — to attack malignant diseases through laboratory research, innovative clinical trials, and prevention research.

UChicago’s Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of only two NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in Illinois and has earned a reputation for excellence, innovation, and a commitment to addressing cancer from every angle.

Our mission at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center is to develop innovative and collaborative research to discover the determinants of cancer, to develop cures for cancer, and to prevent cancer.