Duke Cancer Institute
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The center specializes in the treatment and prevention of cancer and was ranked 41st in the U.S. News & World Report's 2021 list of top cancer hospitals.[4] More than 10,000 new cancer patients are seen at Duke each year.[5] The institute signed the National Cancer Act of 1971 and became an NCI-designated cancer center in 1973.[6]
In November 2010, Victor Dzau, MD, chancellor of health affairs for Duke University, formally unveiled the Duke Cancer Institute, during the topping out ceremony for the new building.[7]
The DCI is a single entity—the first of its kind at Duke—that integrates and aligns patient care and basic and clinical research with the goals of improving patient outcomes, decreasing the burden of cancer and accelerating scientific progress.[8]
Michael B. Kastan, a cancer scientist and Director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, was named as the first Executive Director of the Duke Cancer Institute in May 2011.[9] Eun-Sil Shelley Hwang became the institute's first female Chief of Breast Surgery.[10]
On February 27, 2012, the Duke Cancer Institute opened the Duke Cancer Center, a new seven-floor building devoted exclusively to cancer care.[11]
Clinical milestones
In June 2018, the institute published a study in The New England Journal of Medicine showing how a genetically modified poliovirus therapy improved long-term survival for patients with recurrent glioblastoma.[12][13][14] Patients showed a three-year survival rate of 21 percent.[15]
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External links
- Duke Cancer Institute Records at Duke University Medical Center Archives Script error: No such module "webarchive".
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- Hospital buildings completed in 1971
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- Hospitals established in 1971
- Cancer organizations based in the United States
- Medical research institutes in North Carolina
- Hospitals in Durham, North Carolina
- NCI-designated cancer centers