Which is the best cancer hospital? This is, of course, a difficult question. Still, cancer is a complex disease and new treatments are being continually discovered. It makes sense to use a hospital whose cancer research has had a strong impact on the area of cancer medicine (oncology). Such hospital will have outstanding experts, who are familiar with the latest discoveries.
Here, we rank hospitals by the impact their research had in the area of cancer medicine. Hospitals with higher impact research are listed at the top. We rank 100 hospitals.
Methodology:
Cancer treatment is at the forefront of medicine, and it depends on leading research. Here, medical centers are ranked by the number of influential publications in oncology. The ranking is by the number of papers in oncology published during the last 20 years that had received 10 or more citations.
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Rank
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Hospital
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Number of Papers
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1
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Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore | 5459 |
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2
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University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston | 4410 |
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3
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York | 3748 |
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4
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Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif. | 3313 |
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5
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Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. | 3165 |
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6
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Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn. | 2611 |
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7
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Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles | 2389 |
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8
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago | 1905 |
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9
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University of California, San Francisco Medical Center | 1798 |
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10
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston | 1620 |
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11
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University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers, Ann Arbor | 1609 |
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12
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston | 1598 |
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13
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Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. | 1475 |
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14
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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston | 1351 |
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15
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University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland | 1323 |