Frontline Cancer: National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Council (C3) combine efforts in San Diego
When it was first announced three years ago, the San Diego National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Council (C3) was described as a new way to leverage the combined powers in local cancer research. San Diego is among just a few places in the country home to multiple National Cancer Institute-designated cancer centers: Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, the region’s only comprehensive cancer center (research, education and treatment) and the Salk Institute Cancer Center and the Cancer Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), both NCI-designated centers for basic research.