University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
Address:University of Wisconsin Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center 600 Highland Ave., K5/601 Madison, wisconsin USA - United States of America, 53792-6164
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Phone: (800) 622-8922
Website: http://www.cancer.wisc.edu/uwccc/index.asp
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Wisconsin is home the National Cancer Institute-designated University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center that is also an integral part of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. As such, more than 250 physicians and scientists, along with 2,300 dedicated individuals, work towards transitioning the newest discoveries from research lab to cancer patients. The mantra is to detect, prevent, diagnose and treat cancer and increase the number of survivors.

Scientists from many different disciplines work together in UW-Madison’s research programs. Cancer care is provided to more than 20,000 people annually in the form of diagnosis, therapy, follow-up care or consultations. According to in the U.S. News and World Report, UW Hospital and Clinics is consistently among the top 25 of 50 of America's Best Hospitals providing the best cancer care and research efforts.

Since the last 60 years, UW-Madison continues to reach out to the people of Wisconsin by providing health education, technical assistance, and cancer research and treatment. Established in 1940 as the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research, it became the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1973. The present UW Carbone Cancer Center is named after former UWCCC director, Paul P. Carbone, MD, who came to Wisconsin in 1976 and led the cancer center for 18 years. Harold Rusch, MD, the first director of the McArdle Lab, leant his name to the Cancer Center's central research tower as leader of the UW Comprehensive Cancer Center formed in 1973.