# Dartmouth Cancer Center

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## TL;DR

Dartmouth Cancer Center serves rural northern New England as an NCI comprehensive centre; its immunologists founded Medarex, whose human antibody platform produced ipilimumab and nivolumab, and the Dartmouth Institute's work on overdiagnosis has shaped the cancer screening debate.

## Summary

NCI-designated since 1978 and comprehensive since 1990, Dartmouth Cancer Center (renamed from Norris Cotton in 2022) serves northern New England from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Medarex, the company whose fully human antibody platform produced ipilimumab and nivolumab before Bristol Myers Squibb acquired it in 2009, was founded in 1987 by Dartmouth immunologists. The Dartmouth Institute's health-policy research, including Gilbert Welch's work on overdiagnosis, has shaped debate on cancer screening. Current research programmes cover immunology and cancer immunotherapy, cancer biology, and rural cancer control.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Norris Cotton Cancer Center
- City: Lebanon, NH, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://cancer.dartmouth.edu

## Sources

- Dartmouth Cancer Center: https://cancer.dartmouth.edu
- Clinical trials: https://cancer.dartmouth.edu/clinical-trials

## Connected records

- cancers: [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/)
- technologies: [Immune checkpoint inhibitors](https://onco.cc/technologies/checkpoint-inhibitor/), [Monoclonal antibodies](https://onco.cc/technologies/monoclonal-antibody/)
- targets: [CTLA-4](https://onco.cc/targets/ctla4/), [PD-1](https://onco.cc/targets/pd1/)
- drugs: [Ipilimumab](https://onco.cc/drugs/ipilimumab/), [Nivolumab](https://onco.cc/drugs/nivolumab/)
- companies: [Bristol Myers Squibb](https://onco.cc/companies/bms/)
- bottlenecks: [Fragmented care and guideline gaps](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-care-fragmentation/), [Overdiagnosis and false alarms](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-overdiagnosis/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Institute (NIH)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/)
- collections: [NCI-Designated Cancer Centers](https://onco.cc/collections/nci-cancer-centers/)
- people: [Roy S. Herbst](https://onco.cc/people/roy-herbst/)

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