• Administration
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• Mission
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• Generous Benefactors
  • Holden Family Gift
  • John and Mary Pappajohn

The Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at The University of Iowa is dedicated to bringing world class research and cancer care to Iowa, the Midwest, and beyond.

Not just a floor, or a building, or even confined to a single college, Holden Cancer Center coordinates all cancer-related research, education, and patient care throughout the university of Iowa by faculty from 38 departments in six colleges, as well as UI Hospitals and Clinics.

Founded in 1980, Holden Cancer Center

• promotes interactive, high-quality cancer research
• provides high-quality health care related to the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer
• educates cancer professionals and the citizens of Iowa about cancer

Important pieces of the Cancer Center patient care areas include:

• The John and Mary Pappajohn Clinical Cancer Center, located on the third and fourth floors of the Pappajohn Pavilion of UI Hospitals and Clinics, houses the adult patient care area of the Cancer Center. Children are treated at University of Iowa Children's Hospital, located at UI Hospitals and Clinics.
• The Breast Imaging area is on the third floor of the Pappajohn Pavilion.
• The Adult Blood and Marrow Transplantation unit is located on the seventh floor of the Roy Carver Pavilion.
• Center of Excellence
• Patients are also seen in various department clinics including, Dermatology, Center for Digestive Diseases, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Pediatrics, and Urology.

Research is conducted in laboratories throughout the University of Iowa campus. The Roland and Ruby Holden Cancer Research Laboratories, part of the Medical Education and Research Facility, allow the Cancer Center to integrate many researchers in close proximity to each other.

In 2000, the Cancer Center was recognized by the National Cancer Institute as an NCI-designated Cancer Center and received "comprehensive" status shortly thereafter. This comprehensive designation was renewed in 2005.

The NCI designation recognizes the research scientists, physicians, and other health care professionals for their roles in treating and caring for our patients with cancer.