# Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, UC Irvine

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## TL;DR

Orange County's NCI comprehensive cancer centre, pairing UCI Health clinical care with the Beckman Laser Institute's optical imaging science.

## Summary

NCI-designated since 1994, the Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only NCI comprehensive centre in Orange County. Its distinctive research asset is UCI's Beckman Laser Institute, a birthplace of biomedical optics and optical imaging of tissue, alongside programmes in cancer systems biology, GI and head and neck cancers, and haematologic malignancies. UCI Health opened a new Irvine medical campus in the mid-2020s, expanding cancer care alongside the Orange hospital. Patients can access NCI cooperative group and investigator-initiated trials.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: UCI Chao Family CCC
- City: Orange, CA, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://cancer.uci.edu

## Sources

- Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center: https://cancer.uci.edu

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute myeloid leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/aml/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/)
- fronts: [Imaging](https://onco.cc/fronts/imaging/)
- technologies: [Fluorescence-guided surgery](https://onco.cc/technologies/fluorescence-guided-surgery/), [Optical & fluorescence imaging](https://onco.cc/technologies/optical-imaging/)
- people: [Krishnansu S. Tewari](https://onco.cc/people/krishnansu-tewari/), [Richard Van Etten](https://onco.cc/people/richard-van-etten/)
- institutions: [City of Hope Orange County](https://onco.cc/institutions/city-of-hope-orange-county/), [National Cancer Institute (NIH)](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci/)

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