UCSF Medical Center (San Francisco). The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is consistently ranked among the top cancer hospitals in the nation by U.S News & World Report — for 2015-16, it was ranked No. 9 in the nation for cancer care. It is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center and is also a member of the NCI's Children's Oncology Research Group Phase 1 Consortium. The center is an ATHENA Breast Health Network Collaborator and is home to a number of important research breakthroughs, including the discovering of cancer-causing oncogenes, which led to a Nobel Prize award in 1989 and groundbreaking work on telomeres, which resulted in another Nobel Prize in 2009.
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