Fact Sheet
Yale Cancer Center delivers the highest quality patient-centered care, achieves breakthrough discoveries, and trains the future leaders in cancer science and medicine.
Research Excellence
- Celebrating 37 years as Connecticut’s only comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute
- 222 cancer researchers on faculty
- #1 in National Institutes of Health funding per faculty member
- $90 million in cancer research funding (2010)
- $34 million in funding from the National Cancer Institute (2010)
- 117 National Cancer Institute funded projects (2010)
- 11 members of the National Academy of Sciences
- 13 members of the Institute of Medicine
- 10 Howard Hughes Medical Investigators
- 645 cancer research publications (2010)
- 15 academic departments ranked in the top 5 in their respective specialties
Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale-New Haven
- The only comprehensive cancer facility in the Northeast, bringing together both inpatient and outpatient care in one hospital.
- Connecticut’s largest provider of cancer care – treating over 15% of the 20,000 patients diagnosed annually in the state
- 12 multidisciplinary cancer programs, 250 oncology nurses
- 168 inpatient beds, 12 operating rooms, 100 infusion chairs
- 135 clinical trials providing the most advanced cancer therapies
- Specialty services – survivorship care, prevention education, smoking cessation, oncodermatology service, cardiotoxicity service, support groups, cancer boutique, and exercise & nutrition support
