The Moores UCSD Cancer Center is an academic medical center committed to both the art and science of medicine. Thousands of individuals turn to us for the comprehensive care and complex treatment available only at academic medical centers. Our patients have access to the latest technological advances that are compassionately provided by academic physicians and surgeons who possess a tremendous scope of knowledge and depth of expertise. In addition, at academic medical centers such as UCSD, a team of world-class researchers are developing and testing the effectiveness of new therapies and medical devices.
One of the primary benefits of an academic medical center is the team approach to your care. At UCSD, you don’t have just one physician, or several physicians from different practices and disciplines who you hope touch base with one another. Our multidisciplinary team works together on your case. In most instances, we’re all in the same building, making it easier and faster to compare notes, confer regularly with one another, and review your progress.
As an academic center, UCSD has access to resources that aren’t commonly available elsewhere. That means we have the technology and techniques that are often years ahead of other medical centers. For our patients, that translates to more sophisticated disease definition made possible by advanced diagnostic imaging and evaluation.
According to the Association of Medical Colleges, the nation’s medical schools and teaching hospitals conduct more than half of the research sponsored by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The basic researchers and physician-scientists at UCSD are among the largest recipients of these NIH research grants. At UCSD, the marriage of this robust basic research program with the clinical input of our physicians and surgeons is a powerful combination, geared to the development of new therapies and improved disease prevention.
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