San Diego City Wire

UC San Diego Health-Moores Cancer Center is ranked 20th in the U.S. for cancer treatment.

That's according to U.S. News and World Report's ranking of the Top 50 "Best Hospitals for Cancer."

Located in La Jolla, California, UC San Diego Health-Moores Cancer Center was founded in 1978. Its current president is Patty Maysent. The hospital has a pediatric ward and is also a training hospital.

U.S. News evaluated almost 900 hospitals across the country to discern the top 50 based on their cancer treatments. The evaluation covered a variety of cancer types, including leukemia, lymphoma, breast, colon, prostate, uterine and ovarian cancers among many others. The hospitals were evaluated based on categories such as patient outcomes, patient experience, care-related indicators like staffing and available technology, and expert opinion through a physician survey.

There is a list of Top 50 "Best Hospitals for Cancer":

Rank	Hospital Name	Address	Score
1	University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center	Houston, TX 77030-4000	100/100
2	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	New York, NY 10065-6007	92.8/100
3	Mayo Clinic-Rochester	Rochester, MN 55905-0002	87.3/100
4	UCLA Medical Center	Los Angeles, CA 90095-8358	86.5/100
5	Dana-Farber Brigham and Women's Cancer Center	Boston, MA 02215	81/100
6	Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian	Philadelphia, PA 19104-4206	80/100
7	UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center	San Francisco, CA 94143-0296	79.4/100
8	City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center	Duarte, CA 91010-3012	79/100
9	Johns Hopkins Hospital	Baltimore, MD 21287-2182	77.9/100
10	Cleveland Clinic	Cleveland, OH 44195-5108	76.9/100
11	Stanford Health Care-Stanford Hospital	Stanford, CA 94305	76.8/100
12	Mount Sinai Hospital	New York, NY 10029-6574	76.7/100
13	New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell	New York, NY 10065-4870	76.5/100
14	Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	Los Angeles, CA 90048-1865	74.7/100
15	USC Norris Cancer Hospital-Keck Medical Center of USC	Los Angeles, CA 90033-3804	74/100
16	University of Chicago Medical Center	Chicago, IL 60637-1447	73/100
17	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center	Boston, MA 02215-5491	72.3/100
18	Northwestern Medicine-Northwestern Memorial Hospital	Chicago, IL 60611-2908	71.8/100
19	UT Southwestern Medical Center	Dallas, TX 75390-9265	70.9/100
20	UC San Diego Health-Moores Cancer Center	La Jolla, CA 92037	70.5/100
20	Houston Methodist Hospital	Houston, TX 77030-2707	70.5/100
22	Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Hospitals	New York, NY 10016-6402	70.2/100
23	Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital	Saint Louis, MO 63110-1003	70/100
24	Mayo Clinic-Arizona	Phoenix, AZ 85054-4502	69.8/100
25	UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside	Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2536	69.6/100
26	North Shore University Hospital at Northwell Health	Manhasset, NY 11030-3816	69.4/100
27	Mayo Clinic-Florida	Jacksonville, FL 32224-1865	68.8/100
28	Massachusetts General Hospital	Boston, MA 02114-2696	68.5/100
29	Duke University Hospital	Durham, NC 27705-4699	67.5/100
30	Rush University Medical Center	Chicago, IL 60612-3833	67/100
31	H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute	Tampa, FL 33612-9497	66.8/100
32	OHSU Hospital-Knight Cancer Institute	Portland, OR 97239-3098	64.6/100
33	Ohio State University James Cancer Hospital	Columbus, OH 43210-1280	63.5/100
34	University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center	Ann Arbor, MI 48109-5000	63.4/100
35	Montefiore Medical Center	Bronx, NY 10467-2401	63.1/100
36	UC Davis Medical Center	Sacramento, CA 95817-2282	62.7/100
37	M Health Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center	Minneapolis, MN 55455	62.3/100
38	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center University of Washington Medical Center	Seattle, WA 98109-4405	62/100
39	University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center	Cleveland, OH 44106-1716	61.9/100
40	Vanderbilt University Medical Center	Nashville, TN 37232-2102	61.7/100
41	AdventHealth Orlando	Orlando, FL 32803-1248	61.6/100
42	Fox Chase Cancer Center	Philadelphia, PA 19111-2434	61.3/100
43	Lenox Hill Hospital at Northwell Health	New York, NY 10075-1850	61.2/100
44	University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center	Lexington, KY 40536-0293	60.5/100
45	Emory University Hospital	Atlanta, GA 30322-1102	60.1/100
46	Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center	Denver, CO 80218-1281	60/100
47	University of Kansas Hospital	Kansas City, KS 66160-7200	59.8/100
47	UNC Hospitals	Chapel Hill, NC 27514-4220	59.8/100
47	Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals-Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center	Philadelphia, PA 19107-5084	59.8/100
50	Smilow Cancer Hospital at Yale New Haven	New Haven, CT 06510-3202	59.7/100