Norris Cotton Cancer Center

The Norris Cotton Cancer Center is a comprehensive cancer center as designated by the National Cancer Institute, with administrative offices located within the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

The Center combines advanced cancer research at Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire, with patient-centered cancer care provided at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock regional locations in Manchester and Keene, New Hampshire, and St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and 11 partner hospitals throughout New Hampshire and Vermont.

The mission of the Center is to understand the causes of cancer, to translate new knowledge into better treatment, to provide effective and compassionate clinical care that improves the lives of cancer patients and families, and to educate communities about effective choices to prevent cancer.

The Center provides access to research-based care, advanced technologies, and clinical trials for patients throughout northern New England.

More than 200 cancer specialists at Norris Cotton Cancer Center work in teams to treat more than 20,000 patients per year with all types of cancer, using state of the art technologies in diagnostics and imaging; medical, radiation and surgical oncology; bone marrow transplantation; and immunotherapy.

In all, the Center has 25 separate programs for treating different cancers. These include:

In addition, the Center has several in-treatment and patient follow-up programs, including:

The Center’s 130 member investigators advance cancer science in six program areas:

More than 250 research projects, with funding of more than $68 million per year, are ongoing at the Center.

Research collaborations draw on faculty at Dartmouth College and its professional schools: the Geisel School of Medicine, Thayer School of Engineering, and Tuck School of Business. The Center’s researchers also collaborate with partner-researchers at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and the University of Vermont. In partnership with The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, the Center is developing cancer registries in breast and colon cancer, and is shaping new work in health services, outcomes, and comparative effectiveness research.

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