Moores Cancer Center

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Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center
UC San Diego Health
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Moores Cancer Center
Geography
Location La Jolla, San Diego, California, United States
Coordinates 32°52′44″N117°13′23″W / 32.878863°N 117.223111°W / 32.878863; -117.223111 Coordinates: 32°52′44″N117°13′23″W / 32.878863°N 117.223111°W / 32.878863; -117.223111
Organization
Type Teaching
Affiliated university University of California San Diego
Services
Emergency department Yes (Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center)
Specialty Oncology
History
Opened1978
Links
Website health.ucsd.edu/specialties/cancer/Pages/default.aspx
Lists Hospitals in California

The Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center is the region's only NCI-designated Cancer Center in La Jolla, California, part of UC San Diego Health and affiliated with the University of California San Diego. It is supported, in part, by the National Cancer Institute.

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History

The center was established in 1978 and received its NCI designation the same year. It earned comprehensive status in 2001. [1] There are approximately 360 faculty members affiliated with the center.

A five-story building, home to the center, was opened in La Jolla in 2005. [2]

The Moores Cancer Center provides outpatient treatment on site. Inpatient hospital treatment is provided at the adjacent Jacobs Medical Center in the Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care, which opened in 2016 and has three floors dedicated to oncology, [3] and at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, which has recently expanded its cancer services.

Scott Lippman has been the director since 2012. He previously worked at MD Anderson Cancer Center. [4]

The six major research programs at Moores Cancer Center comprise the following: Cancer Biology; Cancer Genes and Genome; Cancer Prevention and Control; Hematologic Malignancies; Reducing Cancer Disparities; and Tumor Growth, Invasion, and Metastasis. [1] [5]

Notable faculty

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References

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  2. "About the Cancer Center – Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health". UC Health – UC San Diego. Retrieved 7 November 2017.
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