Founded in 1974, VCU Massey Cancer Center is a non-profit organization part of

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. Located in

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, Virginia Commonwealth University is one of the nation's top research universities, and

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, a leading academic health system ranked Virginia's top hospital by U.S. News & World Report in 2012. Massey is one of only 68 among 1,500 cancer centers in the country, and one of only two in Virginia, designated by the

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. This places Massey among the top four percent of cancer centers in the country. They are a resource for cancer research, treatment and clinical trials as well as training of the region's oncologists.

History

1838 -

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created the Medical Department.
1854 – The Medical Department became the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) after receiving an independent charter from the

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.
1860 – MCV became state-affiliated.
1917 – The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health was established on what is known today as VCU's Monroe Park Campus.
1925 – The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health became the Richmond division of the

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.
1939 – The Richmond School of Social Work and Public Health changed its name to

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.
1939 – A tumor board and a multidisciplinary tumor clinic were established at MCV.
1962 –

separated from

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to become an independent state institution.
1966 –The Divisions of Surgical Oncology and Medical Oncology were created within the Departments of Surgery and Medicine, respectively, at MCV.
1968 – MCV merged with the

to form Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU); MCV became the health sciences campus of VCU, called the MCV Campus.
1974 – The VCU Board of Visitors established a cancer center on the MCV Campus and a planning grant was received from the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
1975 – The first Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) was funded by the NCI, with Walter Lawrence, Jr., M.D., a surgeon and former president of the

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, as principal investigator and director of the cancer center.
1983 – The cancer center was named VCU Massey Cancer Center in honor of a major gift by William and Evan Massey.
1986 – North Hospital (renovated former E.G. Williams Hospital) opened, which today houses VCU Massey Cancer Center's Dalton Oncology Clinic, Radiation Oncology Department, BMT in-patient and out-patient clinics and Thomas Palliative Care Unit.
1987 – The Department of Radiation Oncology was established.
1988 – I. David Goldman, M.D., now director of Albert Einstein Cancer Center at

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, became director of VCU Massey Cancer Center.
1993 – The Schools of Medicine and Basic Health Sciences merged.
1995 – Francis Macrina, Ph.D., now vice president for research at VCU School of Dentistry, became interim director of VCU Massey Cancer Center.
1997 – Gordon D. Ginder, M.D., former associate director of the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, became director of VCU Massey Cancer Center.
2006 – VCU Massey Cancer Center opened Goodwin Research Laboratory, an 80,000-square-foot, state-of-art cancer research facility.
2008 –

opened the Critical Care Hospital, which includes VCU Massey Cancer Center's in-patient oncology care unit.

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