Yale Cancer Center was among the first in the nation to be designated a Comprehensive Cancer Center in the 1970s by the then-new National Cancer Institute, created only a few years earlier by the National Cancer Act of 1971.
Even today, a half century later, the country has only 57 NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, institutions recognized nationally for meeting rigorous standards for transdisciplinary, state-of-the-art research focused on developing new and better approaches to preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer.
YCC is the only institution in Connecticut designated by the NCI as a Comprehensive Cancer Center.