# University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

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## TL;DR

New Mexico's only cancer centre, an NCI comprehensive centre serving a majority-minority state and home of the state-wide HPV Pap Registry.

## Summary

NCI-designated in 2005 and comprehensive since 2015, the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only cancer centre in New Mexico, a state with large Hispanic and Native American populations and unusual exposures such as uranium mining. Cosette Wheeler's New Mexico HPV Pap Registry is the only US state-wide cervical screening registry and has informed national HPV testing policy. Cheryl Willman, now Mayo's cancer centre director, led the centre for two decades while defining Philadelphia-like acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. The UNM Center for Molecular Discovery pioneered high-throughput flow cytometry for drug screening.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: UNM Cancer Center
- City: Albuquerque, NM, US
- Type: cancer-center
- NCI designation: comprehensive
- Website: https://cancer.unm.edu

## Sources

- UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center: https://cancer.unm.edu

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/)
- fronts: [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/)
- technologies: [Functional (ex vivo) drug testing](https://onco.cc/technologies/functional-drug-testing/), [HPV & HBV vaccination](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-vaccine/), [HPV DNA testing and self-sampling](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-testing/)
- people: [Cheryl L. Willman](https://onco.cc/people/cheryl-willman/)
- 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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