What is Md Anderson Cancer Center Houston?
MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston is also called as the University of Texas Md Anderson Cancer Center located in Houston, Texas, United States. The center has regarded among the three comprehensive cancer centers founded by the National Cancer Act of 1971 located in United States. MD Anderson Cancer Center is a cancer treatment and Research Center as well as academic institution and affiliated with two Big research based medical schools, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Baylor College of Medicine. It has ranked as number one in cancer care institutions according to the United States News and World Report. MD Anderson Cancer Center was established in 1941 under an Act of the Texas Legislature. At present, the center is regarded among the 68 Comprehensive Cancer Centers and served more than 115,000 patients as of 2012. The MD center has employed more than 19,000 people and consisted more than 631 beds. MD Anderson Cancer Center is named after Monroe Dunaway Anderson. The center has mainly concentrated on causes, treatments as well as prevention of cancer. In 2012, more than 8,500 patients have participated in therapeutic clinical research. The center has offered master's degrees as well as Ph.D.s to its students. The study area of the MD Anderson Cancer Center consists: gene therapy, virology, experimental therapeutics, biomathematics and biostatistics, medical physics, molecular carcinogenesis, cancer biology, immunology etc. MD Anderson Cancer Center is growing continuously and presently consisting a number of research buildings, outpatient clinic buildings, a patient-family hotel, two faculty office buildings as well as numerous facilities for clinical and research. MD Anderson Cancer Center has maintained relationship with more than 25 organizations located in Europe, Asia, South America, Central America etc.