# O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB

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## TL;DR

Alabama's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centre, one of the original 1971 designees, serving the Deep South and studying cancer disparities.

## Summary

One of the first cancer centres designated under the 1971 National Cancer Act, O'Neal is the only NCI comprehensive centre in Alabama and a reference centre for Mississippi and the Deep South. Research strengths include gynaecologic oncology and ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, neuro-oncology and head and neck cancer, with a long-running focus on rural and Black population health disparities. The UAB Proton Center, which opened in 2020, added proton beam therapy to the state. Selwyn Vickers, now MSK's president, was previously UAB's dean and a pancreatic surgeon here. Patients have access to phase 1 through phase 3 trials via UAB's Cancer Clinical Trials Office.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center
- City: Birmingham, AL, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://www.uab.edu/onealcancercenter/

## Sources

- O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center: https://www.uab.edu/onealcancercenter/
- Clinical trials: https://www.uab.edu/onealcancercenter/patient-care/clinical-trials

## Connected records

- cancers: [Glioma & glioblastoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/glioblastoma/), [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/), [Ovarian cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/ovarian/), [Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/pancreatic/)
- fronts: [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- technologies: [Proton therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/proton-therapy/)
- people: [Selwyn M. Vickers](https://onco.cc/people/selwyn-vickers/)
- bottlenecks: [Trials do not represent the people who get cancer](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-trial-diversity/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Institute (NIH)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/)
- collections: [NCI-Designated Cancer Centers](https://onco.cc/collections/nci-cancer-centers/)

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