NCI-Designated Cancer Centers

The NCI-Designated Cancer Centers list is the US government's roster of the cancer centres that meet the National Cancer Institute's standards for research and care: 74 centres in 2026, of which 58 are Comprehensive, 8 Clinical and 8 Basic Laboratory. Designation depends on a competitive P30 grant that must be renewed every five years. The list is maintained by the NCI and is public. On OnCo it is linked to the institution records of designated centres, from the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB to The Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center, and it is cited by the bottlenecks Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists and Fragmented care and guideline gaps and by the idea Promote academics for trials completed, data shared and findings replicated.