The national research network of Italy's cancer research hospitals, set up by the health ministry in 2002 to run joint projects across institutes that are otherwise funded and governed separately.
Alleanza Contro il Cancro states on its own site that it was founded in 2002 by the Ministry of Health and is the largest Italian oncology research network. Its members are 27 research hospitals with the status of IRCCS (Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, the hospitals the ministry recognises and part-funds for research), together with the patient association AIMaC, the Italian Sarcoma Group, the CNAO particle therapy foundation, the national nuclear physics institute INFN, the Fondazione Policlinico di Milano and the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, which hosts its offices. It lists 14 national and international projects. It is a member of the Organisation of European Cancer Institutes. One of its researchers, Diego Serraino, wrote the incidence chapter of the 2025 edition of I numeri del cancro in Italia.
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