University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
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The University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center is a collaborative cancer research center based in Hyde Park, Chicago, United States. The Comprehensive Cancer Center is affiliated with the University of Chicago.{{cite web|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/cancer |title=Home|website=University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center}}
History
The Comprehensive Cancer Center was founded in 1973 as the University of Chicago Cancer Research Center, and, after earning its Comprehensive Cancer Center designation,{{cite web|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news/1998/april/comprehensive-cancer-center-university-of-chicago-cancer-research-center-receives-comprehensive-desi|title=Comprehensive Cancer Center University of Chicago Cancer Research Center receives comprehensive desi - UChicago Medicine|website=www.uchicagomedicine.org}} was renamed the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The Comprehensive Cancer Center is one of 51 comprehensive cancer centers in the United States as designated by the National Cancer Institute{{cite web |url=https://www.cancer.gov/research/nci-role/cancer-centers|title=NCI-Designated Cancer Centers - National Cancer Institute|website=www.cancer.gov|date=5 April 2012 }} of the National Institutes of Health.
The first cancer research center director was John Ultmann whose specialty was the diagnosis, staging and treatment of Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and the development of cancer chemotherapy.{{cite web|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/forefront/news/2000/october/renowned-cancer-researcher-john-e-ultmann-md-1925-2000|title=Renowned cancer researcher John E Ultmann MD 1925-2000 - UChicago Medicine|website=www.uchicagomedicine.org}} The director is Kunle Odunsi, MD{{cite web|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/cancer/about-us/leadership|title=Comprehensive Cancer Center Leadership|website=www.uchicagomedicine.org}} who accepted the position in 2021. Odunsi is an expert in immunotherapy and vaccine therapy for cancer. He also serves as Biological Sciences Division Dean for Oncology and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Chicago.
Scientific programs
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Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators are organized into four integrated scientific programs that take advantage of resources throughout the university, the University of Chicago Medical Center, and other scientific and medical communities:
- Program 1: Molecular Mechanisms of Cancer
- Program 2: Immunology and Cancer
- Program 3: Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics
- Program 4: Cancer Risk and Prevention
Clinical trials
The Comprehensive Cancer Center is involved in more than 300 cancer clinical trials{{cite web|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/cancer/research/clinical-trials|title=Cancer Clinical Trials - UChicago Medicine|website=www.uchicagomedicine.org}} and encourages participation in the clinical trials by community oncologists and minority populations through a network of affiliated hospitals. Researchers also strive to eliminate health disparities among ethnic and social groups that compose areas surrounding the UChicago campus.
Accomplishments
UChicago accomplishments include landmark prostate cancer treatment in 1939, the identification of the first chromosomal abnormality in leukemia in 1972, the 1988 discovery of the molecular mechanism by which tamoxifen blocks the effects of estrogen, and the 2008 development of a new MRI procedure that can detect early breast cancer.{{cite web|url=https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/cancer/about-us/legacy|title=Our Legacy of Cancer Research Excellence - UChicago Medicine|website=www.uchicagomedicine.org}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.uchicagomedicine.org/cancer}}
- [https://uccrf.uchicago.edu University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation]
- [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/scrc/findingaids/view.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.UCCANCER Guide to the University of Chicago Cancer Research Records 1938-1980] at the [https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/ University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center]
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