Fox Chase Cancer Center

Fox Chase Cancer Center
Temple University Health System
Geography
Location	333 Cottman Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Coordinates	40°04′19″N 75°05′25″W / 40.071848°N 75.090206°W / 40.071848; -75.090206
Organization
Type	Specialist
Affiliated university	Temple University School of Medicine, Temple University
Services
Standards	NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
Speciality	Oncology, Teaching hospital, Cancer research
History
Former names	American Oncologic Hospital, Institute for Cancer Research
Founded	1904; 122 years ago (1904) (as the American Oncologic Hospital)
Links
Website	www.foxchase.org
Lists	Hospitals in Pennsylvania

Fox Chase Cancer Center is a National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center research facility and hospital located in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The main facilities of the center are located on property adjoining Burholme Park. The center is part of the Temple University Health System (TUHS) and specializes in the treatment and prevention of cancer.

History

The center was formed in 1974 by the merger of the American Oncologic Hospital, which was founded in 1904 as the first cancer hospital in the United States, and the Institute for Cancer Research, founded in 1927.

In 1967 a large wing of the hospital was constructed based on a design by Vincent G. Kling using steep slopes of poured concrete and roof tiles by Ludowici.

In 1995, Fox Chase also became a founding member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of 21 of the nation's leading academic cancer centers.

The center was an independent, non-profit institution until it became part of TUHS on July 1, 2012. On December 15, 2011, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Temple University Health system signed an affiliation agreement. Under the agreement, Fox Chase has connected and extended its current operations into the adjoining 176-bed and 33-acre Jeanes Hospital, which is already a part of the Temple University Health System. Fox Chase is considered the "Cancer Hub" of the Temple University Health System.

The center has more than 2,400 employees and an operating budget of $300 million. Revenue has steadily increased from $509 million in 2019 to $817 million in 2024, with fiscal year 2025 closing in on nearly $1 billion. In fiscal year 2024, annual hospital admissions were nearly 3,500 and outpatient visits to physicians were nearly 144,000. In fiscal year 2025, more than 18,500 new patients were seen at Fox Chase, and the number of patients has increased by more than 110% over the last 4 years. According to the Pennsylvania Health Care Containment Council, Fox Chase ranked second in inpatient surgical cancer cases in the state despite having fewer inpatient beds, operating rooms, and intensive care unit beds than larger centers.

Fox Chase Cancer Center has earned national rankings of 33 in cancer and 19 in urology among the country’s top 50 hospitals in the 2024-2025 Best Hospitals rankings from U.S. News & World Report, which puts these programs in the top 4% nationally.

Notable current and former researchers

• Manfred Bayer, electron microscopist who obtained the earliest images of hepatitis B virus
• Helen M. Berman, former director of the Protein Data Bank
• Baruch Blumberg, (d. 5 April 2011) awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for discovery of Hepatitis B and the Hepatitis B vaccine
• Robert Briggs, pioneer in cloning by embryonic nuclear transfer
• Barbara Burtness, oncologist at Yale
• Edna Cukierman, scientist studying the tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer
• Marie A. DiBerardino, pioneer in amphibian cloning
• Wafik El-Deiry, discoverer of WAF1
• Jenny Pickworth Glusker, noted crystallographer
• Karen Glanz, American behavioral epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania
• Erica Golemis, scientist studying cancer signaling pathways
• David Hungerford, co-discoverer of the Philadelphia chromosome
• V. Craig Jordan, "Father of Tamoxifen"
• Alfred G. Knudson, architect of the "two-hit hypothesis" (Knudson hypothesis) about the role of accumulated genetic errors in cancer development, awarded the Kyoto Prize in 2004 and the Albert Lasker Award in 1998
• Cecily Littleton, Scottish X-ray crystallographer and horticulturalist
• H. Paul Meloche (1929 – 1999), research biochemist who specialized in the field of enzyme stereochemistry
• Irving Millman (d. 17 April 2012), who helped Baruch Blumberg develop the first hepatitis B vaccine
• Beatrice Mintz, pioneering cancer researcher, noted for many embryonic and genetic advances, and member of the National Academy of Sciences and of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
• Maureen Murphy, cancer biologist at Wistar Institute
• Arthur Lindo Patterson, who developed the Patterson function, a key step in determining the structures of molecules using X-ray crystallography
• Robert P. Perry, biophysicist and molecular biologist, who studied RNA synthesis, processing, and regulation
• Irwin Rose, awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004 for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation
• Harry Rozmiarek, noted veterinarian, academic, and laboratory animal care specialist.
• Alton Sutnick, noted for the early clinical work that led to the identification of the Hepatitis B virus
• Shirley M. Tilghman, president of Princeton University from 2001 to 2013
• Donald Weeks
• Tim J. Yen, former professor

See also

• MolIDE
• ProtCID

References

External links

• Official website