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Nevada Cancer Research Foundation

Contact Information

601 S. Rancho Dr., C-26 Las Vegas, NV 89106
(702) 384-0013

Affiliated Doctors

Dr. Nicholas Vogelzang

The Southern Nevada Cancer Research Foundation (NCRF) in Las Vegas is a not only a non-profit cancer research facility but it also serves as Community Clinical Oncology Program (CCOP). Their objective is to provide high quality, innovative cancer treatment for the people of Nevada. All of NCRF’s resources are aimed at continuous research to help understand cancer and finding ways to prevent and treat it. They support their community and local health care providers by making available to them facts about new treatments, new discoveries in the prevention and detection of cancer, and any other new cancer research findings.

This CCOP designation was given by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1983. The concept of a CCOP is to allow the physicians there to work with scientists who are conducting clinical trials supported by the National Cancer Institute. This is an excellent way to get the latest research results to the people who need it at the community level. A program like this helps to increase the number of cancer patients and the physicians who are able to take part in clinical trials that are conducted at large research facilities. Cancer-related clinical trials are available in the following areas:

Cancer Control and Prevention
Treatment Trials
Pharmaceutical Trials
Children’s Trials

A community program like this also provides scientists the population to perform large studies on the prevention and control of cancer.

The Southern Nevada Research Foundation has 50 researchers who are oncologists that practice at various hospitals in Nevada. The Foundation combines their work with several other hospitals in the region. There are cancer program from around the country that also participate in research with the NCRF.

Besides supporting the community through research and clinical trials, the goal of the Southern Nevada Research Foundation and the Community Clinical Oncology Program is to provide whatever services to the patients who are research candidates or actual participants that they need. They stay involved with these clinical trial participants by monitoring every part of their health care and keeping them up to date on research information.

Patients with mesothelioma may benefit from the work done at the CCOP that is part of the Foundation because of all the research they do on lung cancer and mesothelioma. This research leads to hundreds of clinical trials sponsored by the National Cancer Institute for new drugs and therapies that allow patients to access to treatments they normally would not be able to receive.