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University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

aka UNM Cancer Center

New Mexico's only cancer centre, an NCI comprehensive centre serving a majority-minority state and home of the state-wide HPV Pap Registry.

NCI-designated in 2005 and comprehensive since 2015, the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only cancer centre in New Mexico, a state with large Hispanic and Native American populations and unusual exposures such as uranium mining. Cosette Wheeler's New Mexico HPV Pap Registry is the only US state-wide cervical screening registry and has informed national HPV testing policy. Cheryl Willman, now Mayo's cancer centre director, led the centre for two decades while defining Philadelphia-like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. The UNM Center for Molecular Discovery pioneered high-throughput flow cytometry for drug screening.

Location
Albuquerque, NM, US
Type
cancer center · University of New Mexico
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
comprehensive
OnCo score
#170 · 29 points (0 Newsweek + 15 NCI + 14 from 7 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Cervical screening (NM HPV Pap Registry)
  • Leukaemia genomics
  • Native American and Hispanic cancer health

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