# Penn State Cancer Institute

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## TL;DR

The cancer institute of Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania, which offers cancer care and runs cancer research in the same building.

## Summary

Penn State Cancer Institute is based on the campus of Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. It describes its aim as fighting cancer through education and prevention, early detection and diagnosis, treatment and survivorship programs. Clinical services are offered in Hershey and at the cancer centres of Penn State Health St. Joseph and Hampden medical centers. Its page says it has three research programmes, on Population Health and Cancer Control, Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis and Experimental Therapeutics, and that paediatric cancer research benefits from THON and Four Diamonds. It states that it serves a 28-county region and lists more than 250 researchers focused on cancer.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: PSCI
- City: Hershey, PA, US
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://cancer.psu.edu/

## Sources

- About Penn State Cancer Institute: https://med.psu.edu/departments-faculty/cancer-institute/about
- Penn State Cancer Institute: https://med.psu.edu/departments-faculty/cancer-institute
- Cancer Institute research: https://med.psu.edu/departments-faculty/cancer-institute/research

## Connected records

- institutions: [Association of American Cancer Institutes](https://onco.cc/institutions/aaci/)

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