UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center

The Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center is an NCI-designated Cancer Center located in La Jolla, California. It is part of UC San Diego Health and affiliated with the University of California San Diego.

The center was established in 1978 and received its NCI designation the same year, earning comprehensive status in 2001. It is supported, in part, by the National Cancer Institute. The Moores Cancer Center has around 360 faculty members affiliated with it and provides outpatient treatment on site.

Inpatient hospital treatment is provided at the adjacent Jacobs Medical Center in the Pauline and Stanley Foster Pavilion for Cancer Care, which opened in 2016 and has three floors dedicated to oncology and at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest, which has recently expanded its cancer services. The center has six major research programs: Cancer Biology, Cancer Genes and Genome, Cancer Prevention and Control, Hematologic Malignancies, Reducing Cancer Disparities and Tumor Growth, Invasion and Metastasis.