Which centres are certified for the cancer you have, and near enough to reach.
What this is not
There are no success rates here, and that is deliberate. No honest ones exist.
Per-centre survival figures are not published in the United States or Germany. Where raw numbers do exist, they run backwards: the strongest centres take the hardest cases, so unadjusted survival ranks them lower. Adjusting for that needs stage and genetic detail that the registries do not hold.
So this list is never sorted by anything resembling quality, and carries no case volume either — a volume column reads as a score whether or not it is labelled one.
Why certification is worth knowing
What can be said honestly is about a class of centre rather than any single one. The WiZen study, funded by the German Innovation Fund, compared routine care data across tens of thousands of patients and found treatment in a certified centre associated with better survival:
One limit, stated plainly: the breast-cancer benefit was not statistically significant at stage IV. If your disease has spread, this evidence does not say certified centres do better — it says the question has not been answered for you.
All states — 66 centres
O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Birmingham, Alabama
University of Arizona Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tucson, Arizona
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Phoenix, Arizona · Jacksonville, Florida · Rochester, Minnesota
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Orange, California
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duarte, California
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, California
Stanford Cancer Institute
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Stanford, California
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sacramento, California
Moores Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
La Jolla, California
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
San Francisco, California
USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Los Angeles, California
University of Colorado Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Aurora, Colorado
Yale Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
New Haven, Connecticut
Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Washington, District of Columbia
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Miami, Florida
Moffitt Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida
University of Florida Health Cancer Institute
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Gainesville, Florida
Winship Cancer Institute
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Atlanta, Georgia
University of Hawai'i Cancer Center
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Honolulu, Hawai'i
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois
The University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chicago, Illinois
Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Indianapolis, Indiana
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Iowa City, Iowa
The University of Kansas Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Kansas City, Kansas
Markey Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lexington, Kentucky
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baltimore, Maryland
University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baltimore, Maryland
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Boston, Massachusetts
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Detroit, Michigan
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Masonic Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Omaha, Nebraska
Dartmouth Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Lebanon, New Hampshire
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
New Brunswick, New Jersey
University of New Mexico Cancer Research and Treatment Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Montefiore Einstein Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Bronx, New York
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
New York, New York
Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Health
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
New York, New York
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
New York, New York
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Buffalo, New York
Mount Sinai Tisch Cancer Center
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
New York, New York
Wilmot Cancer Institute
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Rochester, New York
Duke Cancer Institute
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Durham, North Carolina
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Cleveland, Ohio
The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbus, Ohio
Stephenson Cancer Center
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Knight Cancer Institute
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Portland, Oregon
Abramson Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fox Chase Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Hollings Cancer Center
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
Charleston, South Carolina
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Memphis, Tennessee
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Nashville, Tennessee
Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dallas, Texas
Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio
NCI Clinical Cancer Center
San Antonio, Texas
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Houston, Texas
Huntsman Cancer Institute
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Salt Lake City, Utah
VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Richmond, Virginia
University of Virginia Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Charlottesville, Virginia
Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington/Seattle Children's Cancer Consortium
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Seattle, Washington
University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center
NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center
Madison, Wisconsin
What is missing
Germany. Roughly 1,700 centres certified by the Deutsche Krebsgesellschaft are not here yet, because whether their register may be republished is unsettled. They are the centres the WiZen findings above were measured on.
Accreditation beyond NCI. About 1,400 US hospitals hold Commission on Cancer accreditation and treat most newly diagnosed patients. That is a much broader list than this one, and a correspondingly weaker signal.
Eight designated centres are not on this page at all. Cold Spring Harbor, Salk, Wistar, the Koch Institute and the Jackson Laboratory among them. They hold NCI designation for laboratory research and treat no patients, so listing them would send someone looking for treatment to a research institute.
57 comprehensive · 9 clinical · 8 laboratory-only = 74 NCI-designated centres
Source: National Cancer Institute, captured 5 August 2026. NCI does not endorse this presentation.