Link directly to current NCI list of CCC's and CC's:

http://www3.cancer.gov/cancercenters/centerslist.html#L33

Link to NCI program description and definitions:

http://www3.cancer.gov/cancercenters/description.html

You can rest assured that I do my homweork on these things.

Perhaps you have NCCN member institutions (of which there are 20 currently and all are CCC's) confused with NCI's listing of CCC's of which there are 39. There are also 22 Cancer Centers.

About NCCN: http://www.nccn.org/about/default.asp

Splitting hairs here, Brian and I both were treated at NCCN member institutions - he at MD Anderson and myself at UCSF.

Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)