About University of Iowa Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Iowa Health Care Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is Iowa’s only comprehensive academic cancer center.

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center is Iowa's only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center and has held that designation since 2000.

The NCI designation recognizes our cancer center, and its research scientists, physicians, and other health care professionals, for their roles in advancing cancer research that impacts on our ability to prevent, detect, and treat our patients with cancer.

We also teach and train future health care professionals and researchers.

We see patients with every type of cancer, from the common to the most rare cancers, and have teams of experts who specialize in and research specific types of cancer.

Studies have shown that patients treated at NCI-designated centers like ours have as much as a 25% greater likelihood of better outcomes.

Our NCI Designation

NCI comprehensive cancer center designation recognizes that Holden provides Iowans with access to a range of cancer treatment opportunities that few other U.S. cancer centers can offer, including a vast array of clinical trials of some of the newest therapies.