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SYLVESTER COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
EARNS PRESTIGIOUS
NCI DESIGNATION
By: Diana Delgado
n July, Sylvester Comprehensive
Cancer Center, part of UHealth –
IUniversity of Miami Health System,
became the only cancer center in South
Florida to receive National Cancer Institute
With this designation,
(NCI) designation. Wi
Sylvester joins a highly select group of
world-renowned cancer centers such as
York and
Memorial Sloan Kettering in New Yo
M.D. Anderson in Houston. Sylvester is the
71st cancer center in the country to receive
NCI designation and is now the second
cancer center in the entire state of Florida
to receive this designation.
The NCI, one of the 11 agencies that form
the National Institutes of Health and the
federal government’s leading agency
for cancer research, training, and health
information dissemination, has now
recognized Sylvester’s outstanding research
work that starts in the labs, impacts patients,
extends to the community and beyond.
Most importantly, this designation means
that patients in South Florida have greater
access to cutting-edge clinical trials and the
latest treatments available without having
to leave the region.
“The NCI-designated cancer centers – these g
are the crown jewels in the nation’s war
on cancer,” said Robert Croyle, Ph.D.,
director of the Division of Cancer Control
and Population Sciences at the National
Cancer Institute, said at the event where
Sylvester’s achievement was publicly
announced. “These are the institutions we
and the world rely on for new therapies,
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Sylvester currently has seven locations “NCI designation is the ‘gold standard’ for
throughout South Florida – including one cancer centers,” Stephen D. Nimer, M.D.,
in Coral Gables at the award-winning director of Sylvester Comprehensive
Lennar Foundation Medical Center – and Cancer Center, said. “It not only recognizes
an eighth is scheduled to open at SoLé the excellent work Sylvester has been
Mia, the new $1.4 billion mixed-use doing, it also allows our physicians and
development now under construction in researchers to expand their research and to
North Miami. collaborate with colleagues at other top-tier
cancer centers around the country – which
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Julio Frenk, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., presiddent of the University of Miami, speaks aat a press conference announcing Sylves ster’s NCI designation.
On stage from left to right: Stephen D. Nimerr,, M.D., director of Sylvester C Comprehensive Cancer Center; U.S. Sen nator Rick Scott; Henri
R. Ford, M.D., M.H.A., dean and chie ef academic officer of the Miller School of Medicine; Edward Abraham, M.D., ex
ecutive vice president
for health affairs at the University o of Miami and CEO of UHealth; Robert T T. Croyle, Ph.D., director of the Division o of Cancer Control and
Population Sciences at NCI; and U.S S. Representative Donna Shalala.
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