Only 41 healthcare facilities in the U.S. have been designated Radiopharmaceutical Comprehensive Centers of Excellence by the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging.
In nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceuticals are used to diagnose and treat disease, including cancer. Treatment occurs through molecular imaging, a detailed type of imaging that allows physicians to measure the body's chemical and biological processes, according to the SNMMI website.
Vetted by the SNMMI, Radiopharmaceutical Centers of Excellence have met predetermined standards and qualifications of training, equipment, personnel and experience required to care for patients undergoing radiopharmaceutical therapy.
The 41 Radiopharmaceutical Comprehensive Centers of Excellence in the U.S. are:
Arizona
- University of Arizona, Banner-University Medical Center Tucson
- Mayo Clinic (Phoenix)
California
- City of Hope (Duarte)
- David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA's Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division, UCLA Heath (Los Angeles)
- Hoag Hospital (Newport Beach)
- Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford (Palo Alto)
- Stanford University, Stanford Health Care
- UC San Diego Health
- University of California San Francisco
Colorado
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center (Aurora)
Florida
- H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute (Tampa)
- Mayo Clinic (Jacksonville)
Georgia:
- Emory University Hospital (Atlanta)
Illinois
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital (Chicago)
- University of Chicago Medical Center
Indiana
- Indiana University Health (Indianapolis)
Iowa
- University of Iowa (Iowa City)
Kentucky
- UK HealthCare (Lexington)
Maryland
- John Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore)
Massachusetts
- Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center (Boston)
- Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston)
Minnesota
- M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center-East Bank Hospital (Minneapolis)
- Mayo Clinic (Rochester)
Missouri
- Washington University in St. Louis, Barnes Jewish Hospital
Nebraska
- Nebraska Cancer Specialists (Omaha)
New York
- Mount Sinai Health System New York City
- New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell (New York City)
- Northwell Health (New Hyde Park)
North Carolina
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (Winston-Salem)
- Duke University Health System (Durham)
Ohio
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
- The James Hospital and Solove Research Institute at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center (Columbus)
Oregon
- Oregon Health & Science University (Portland)
Pennsylvania
- Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia)
- UPMC (Pittsburgh)
Tennessee
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (Nashville)
Texas
- MD Anderson Cancer Center (Houston)
- Methodist Dallas Medical Center
- UT Southwestern Medical Center (Dallas)
Washington
- University of Washington Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center (Seattle)
Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Madison