University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
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| Geography | |
| Location | Houston, Texas, United States of America |
| Coordinates | 29°42′29″N 95°23′51″W / 29.707999°N 95.397525°WCoordinates: 29°42′29″N 95°23′51″W / 29.707999°N 95.397525°W |
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| Care system | Public |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Affiliated university | University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas A&M College of Medicine |
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| Emergency department | Oncologic emergency center |
| Beds | 665 |
| Speciality | Cancer |
| History | |
| Founded | 1941 |
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| Website | mdanderson |
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (colloquially MD Anderson) is one of the original three comprehensive cancer centers in the United States. MD Anderson is the largest, and widely regarded as one of the foremost cancer centers in the world. Over the years it has been consistently ranked #1 for cancer care in USA by the U.S. News and World Report.
It is both a degree-granting academic institution, and a cancer treatment and research center located at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. It is one of the few hospitals in the US affiliated with two major research based medical schools: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Baylor College of Medicine. It has an endowment of $486 million as of November 30, 2014.
MD Anderson was created by an act of the Texas Legislature in 1941, making it a part of The University of Texas System and was established by the National Cancer Act of 1971. Today it is one of 45 Comprehensive Cancer Centers designated by the National Cancer Institute. The cancer center provided care for about 127,000 patients in Fiscal Year 2014 and employs more than 20,000 people.
The cancer center is named after Monroe Dunaway Anderson, a banker and cotton trader from Jackson, Tennessee. He was a member of a business partnership with his brother-in-law Will Clayton. Their company became the largest cotton company in the world. Anderson feared that in the event of one of the partners' deaths, the company would lose a large amount of money to estate tax and be forced to dissolve. To avoid this, Anderson created the MD Anderson Foundation with an initial sum of $300,000. In 1939 after Anderson's death, the foundation received $19 million.
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