the NIH every 5 years. The NIH funds cancer centers through a P30 Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) mechanism. To be eligible to apply, a cancer center must receive at least $10 million in cancer research funding annually. Preparation for these grant applications can be extensive. The most recent grant application prepared by MD Anderson Cancer Center took 24 months to prepare and ran to 2,963 pages. The NCI considers the certain characteristics essential to a cancer center, and requires that applications address the institutions' resources in the areas of: Physical Space, Organizational Capabilities, Transdisciplinary Collaboration and Coordination, Cancer Focus, Institutional Commitment, Center Director. List of centers Comprehensive cancer centers Alabama (1): O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Arizona (1): The University of Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona (Tucson) California (8): Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Irvine City of Hope National Medical Center (Duarte) (independent) UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Los Angeles UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, Davis (Sacramento) USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) Stanford Cancer Institute at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) Colorado (1): University of Colorado Cancer Center at the University of Colorado (Aurora) Connecticut (1): Yale Cancer Center at Yale University School of Medicine (New Haven) District of Columbia (1): Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University (Washington), in association with John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center (NJ) Florida (1): Moffitt Cancer Center at the University of South Florida (Tampa) Georgia (1): Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University (Atlanta) Illinois (2): University of Chicago Comprehensive Cancer Center (Chicago)Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University (Chicago)Indiana (1): Indiana University Cancer Center (Indianapolis)Iowa (1): Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Iowa (Iowa City)Kansas (1): University of Kansas Cancer Center at the University of Kansas (Kansas City)Maryland (2): Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins Medicine (Baltimore) University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center (Baltimore)Massachusetts (1): Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (Boston)Michigan (2): Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute (Detroit) University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center (Ann Arbor)Minnesota (2): Mayo Clinic Cancer Center (Rochester) (independent) Masonic Cancer Center at the