Seeing LGBT friendly doctors, from “the rainbow,” may be attractive. But, you have cancer. If you want the best possible outcomes of longevity and quality of life, then consider seeing the best doctors for the type of cancer that you have been diagnosed with.
The following is a list of National Cancer Institute (NCI)-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers.
Alabama
UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Edward E. Partridge, M.D.
Director
1824 Sixth Avenue South, Room 237
Birmingham, Alabama 35293-3300
Tel: (205) 934-5077
Fax: (205) 975-7428
Arizona
Arizona Cancer Center
University of Arizona
David S. Alberts, M.D.
Director
1515 North Campbell Avenue
P.O. Box 245024
Tucson, Arizona 85724
Tel: (520) 626-7685
Fax: (520) 626-6898
California
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California at Irvine
Frank L. Meyskens, Jr., M.D.
Director
101 The City Drive
Building 56, Rt. 81, Room 216L
Orange, California 92868
Tel: (714) 456-6310
Fax: (714) 456-2240
City of Hope National Medical Center
Beckman Research Institute
Theodore G. Krontiris, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, California 91010-3000
Tel: (626) 256-HOPE (4673)
Fax: (626) 930-5394
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of California Los Angeles
Judith C. Gasson, Ph.D.
Director
Factor Building, Room 8-684
10833 Le Conte Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90095-1781
Tel: (310) 825-5268
Fax: (310) 206-5553
Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center
University of California, San Diego
Dennis A. Carson, M.D.
Director
3855 Health Sciences Drive, Room 2247
La Jolla, California 92093-0658
Tel: (858) 822-1222
Fax: (858) 822-1207
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer
Center
University of California San Francisco
Frank McCormick, Ph.D.
Director
2340 Sutter Street, Box 0128
San Francisco, California 94115-0128
Tel: (415) 502-1710
Fax: (415) 502-1712
USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Southern California
Peter A. Jones, Ph.D.
Director
1441 Eastlake Avenue, NOR 8302L
Los Angeles, California 90089-9181
Tel: (323) 865-0816
Fax: (323) 865-0102
Colorado
University of Colorado Cancer Center
University of Colorado at Denver & Health Sciences
Center
Paul A. Bunn, Jr., M.D.
Director
PO Box 6508, Mail Stop F434
13001 E. 17th Place
Aurora, Colorado 80045
Tel: (303) 724-3155
Fax: (303) 724-3162
Connecticut
Yale Cancer Center
Yale University School of Medicine
Richard L. Edelson, M.D.
Director
333 Cedar Street, Box 208028
New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8028
Tel: (203) 785-4371
Fax: (203) 785-4116
Florida
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
University of South Florida
William S. Dalton, Ph.D, M.D.
CEO & Center Director
12902 Magnolia Drive, MCC-CEO
Tampa, Florida 33612-9497
Tel: (813) 615-4261
Fax: (813) 615-4258
Illinois
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Northwestern University
Steven T. Rosen, M.D.
Director
303 E. Superior Street
Suite 3-125
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Tel: (312) 908-5250
Fax: (312) 908-1372
Iowa
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
The University of Iowa
George J. Weiner, M.D.
Director
5970 “Z” JPP
200 Hawkins Drive
Iowa City, Iowa 52242
Tel: (319) 353-8620
Fax: (319) 353-8988
Maryland
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
Johns Hopkins University
Stephen B. Baylin, M.D.
Interim Director
401 North Broadway
The Weinberg Building, Suite 1100
Baltimore, Maryland 21231
Tel: (410) 955-8822
Fax: (410) 955-6787
Massachusetts
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Edward J. Benz, Jr., M.D.
Director
44 Binney Street, Rm. 1628
Boston, Massachusetts 2115
Tel: (617) 632-4266
Fax: (617) 632-2161
Michigan
The Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Wayne State University School of Medicine
John C. Ruckdeschel, M.D.
President & CEO
4100 John R
Detroit, Michigan 48201
Tel: (800) KARMANOS
Fax: (313) 576-8630
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Michigan
Max S. Wicha, M.D.
Director
6302 Cancer Center
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-0942
Tel: (734) 936-1831
Fax: (734) 615-3947
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Mayo Clinic Rochester
Robert Diasio, M.D.
Director
200 First Street, S.W.
Rochester, Minnesota 55905
Tel: (507) 266-4997
Fax: (507) 284-1544
University of Minnesota Cancer Center
Douglas Yee, M.D.
Director
MMC 806, 420 Delaware Street, S.E.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
Tel: (612) 624-8484
Fax: (612) 626-3069
Siteman Cancer Center
Washington University School of Medicine
Timothy J. Eberlein, M.D.
Director
660 South Euclid Avenue
Campus Box 8109
St. Louis, Missouri 63110
Tel: (314) 362-8020
Fax: (314) 454-1898
Norris Cotton Cancer Center
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Mark A. Israel, M.D.
Director
One Medical Center Drive, Hinman Box
7920
Lebanon, New Hampshire 03756-0001
Tel: (603) 653-9000
Fax: (603) 653-9003
Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Joseph R. Bertino, M.D.
Interim Director
195 Little Albany Street
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903-2681
Tel: (732) 235-8064
Fax: (732) 235-8094
Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center
Columbia University
Riccardo Dalla-Favera, M.D.
Director
1130 St. Nicholas Avenue
Room 508
New York, New York 10032
Tel: (212) 851-5273
Fax: (212) 851-5236
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Harold E. Varmus, M.D.
President & CEO
1275 York Avenue
New York, New York 10021
Tel: (212) 639-2000
Fax: (212) 717-3299
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Donald L. Trump, M.D., FACP
President & CEO
Elm & Carlton Streets
Buffalo, New York 14263-0001
Tel: (716) 845-5772
Fax: (716) 845-8261
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Duke University Medical Center
H. Kim Lyerly, M.D.
Director
Box 2714
Durham, North Carolina 27710
Tel: (919) 684-3377
Fax: (919) 684-5653
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
H. Shelton Earp, M.D.
Lineberger Professor of Cancer Research & Director
102 Mason Farm Rd., CB 7295
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7295
Tel: (919) 966-3036
Fax: (919) 966-3015
Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center
Wake Forest University
Frank M. Torti, M.D.
Director
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27157-1082
Tel: (336) 716-7971
Fax: (336) 716-0293
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
Case Western Reserve University
Stanton L. Gerson, M.D.
Director
11100 Euclid Ave., Wearn 151
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-5065
Tel: (216) 844-8562
Fax: (216) 844-4975
Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Ohio State University
Michael A. Caligiuri, M.D.
Director
A458 Staring Loving Hall
320 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210
Tel: (614) 293-7521
Fax: (614) 293-7522
Abramson Cancer Center
University of Pennsylvania
Craig B. Thompson, M.D.
Director
16th Floor Penn Tower
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4283
Tel: (215) 662-6065
Fax: (215) 349-5325
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Michael V. Seiden, M.D., Ph.D.
President & Chief Executive Officer
333 Cottman Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19111
Tel: (215) 728-3636
Fax: (215) 728-2571
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
Ronald B. Heberman, M.D.
Director
UPMC Cancer Pavilion
5150 Centre Avenue, Suite 500
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15232
Tel: (412) 623-3205
Fax: (412) 623-3210
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
Vanderbilt University
Jennifer A. Pietenpol, Ph.D.
Director
691 Preston Research Building
Nashville, Tennessee 37232-6838
Tel: (615) 936-1782
Fax: (615) 936-1790
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
University of Texas
John Mendelsohn, M.D.
President
1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Box 91
Houston, Texas 77030
Tel: (713) 792-2121
Fax: (713) 799-2210
Vermont Cancer Center
University of Vermont
John Fogarty, M.D.
Interim Director
89 Beaumont Ave., Given E213
Burlington, Vermont 05405-0110
Tel: (802) 656-4414
Fax: (802) 656-8788
Fred Hutchinson/University of Washington Cancer
Consortium
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Leland H. Hartwell, Ph.D.
President & Director
P.O. Box 19024, D1-060
Seattle, Washington 98109-1024
Tel: (206) 667-4305
Fax: (206) 667-5268
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center
Georgetown University
Louis M. Weiner, M.D.
Director
3970 Reservoir Road, N.W.
Research Bldg., Suite E501
Washington, District of Columbia 20057
Tel: (202) 687-2110
Fax: (202) 687-6110
UW Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Wisconsin
George Wilding, M.D.
Director
600 Highland Ave., Rm. K4/610
Madison, Wisconsin 53792-0001
Tel: (608) 263-8610
Fax: (608) 263-8613