About the UVM Cancer Center

The University of Vermont (UVM) Cancer Center was founded in 1974. The cancer center is a not-for-profit organization administratively located at the Larner College of Medicine with clinical partnerships across the University of Vermont Health Network and beyond.

Mission

The mission of the University of Vermont Cancer Center is to reduce the burden of cancer in Vermont, northeastern New York and across northern New England, through research, outstanding clinical care, community outreach and education.

Vision

Working together, affiliated members, clinicians, scientists, and community stakeholders will be leaders in facilitating transdisciplinary discovery and achieving cancer health equity in northern New England.

The Four Pillars

The Cancer Center is a research institute, a clinical care facility, an educational entity and a community organization all in one. Our four pillars - research, clinical care, education, and community outreach - supports the mission of the Center -- to reduce the burden on cancer in the catchment area. 

The four pillars related to each other

Location & Facilities

The cancer center is an official administrative unit of UVM's Larner College of Medicine. Our clinicians enjoy a clinical partnership with the University of Vermont Medical Center. This flagship academic medical center includes an Ambulatory Care Center, an Education and Conference Center, and a cancer center clinical facility which allows integrated, multidisciplinary services for cancer diagnosis, outpatient treatment, and post-treatment follow up.

Contact Information

The University of Vermont Cancer Center
The Courtyard at Given
4th Floor North
89 Beaumont Avenue
Burlington, VT  05405

For clinical matters, please call (802) 847-8400.

For administrative matters, please use the contact information below.

Phone: (802) 656-4414
Fax: (802) 656-8788

Email: cancer@uvmcc.med.uvm.edu
Twitter: @UVMcancercenter
Facebook: @UVMCancerCenter

WCAX Highlights Holcombe's Welcome of H.S. Students to Careers in Cancer Event

April 12, 2024 by Lucy Gardner Carson

(APRIL 12, 2024) UVM Cancer Center director Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., welcomed more than 75 students from five Burlington-area high schools to the second Careers in Cancer event at the UVM Cancer Center on April 12, WCAX-TV reported.

Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, and director of the UVM Cancer Center

(APRIL 12, 2024) Randall Holcombe, M.D., M.B.A., professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, and director of the UVM Cancer Center, welcomed more than 75 students from five Burlington-area high schools to the second Careers in Cancer event at the UVM Cancer Center on April 12, WCAX-TV reported.

Area high school students interested in a career in health care had the opportunity to talk with student researchers and scientists, allowing them to step out of the classroom and into a real medical lab. They looked at cancer cells, observed specialized lab equipment, and witnessed demonstrations on growing and visualizing crystals to understand protein structures. They also heard from guest speakers and learned about career and research pathways in oncology.

“Students have been walking through the basic research laboratories. This is something that they really don’t get exposed to in their high school education,” said Holcombe.

Holcombe was pleased with the interest the Careers in Cancer event generated among the high school students who participated. “There’s a critical shortage of cancer doctors across the country, and that is particularly severe in states with very large rural populations like Vermont,” he said.

This event was also covered by WVNY-TV.

Read full story at WCAX-TV