Across the United States, more than 200 children’s cancer centers that have met the quality assurance standards established by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) comprise a network of hospitals known as the Children’s Oncology Group (COG). This group of institutions work together to implement improved therapies, developed through collaborative clinical-translational research, including large-scale clinical trials that are funded by the NCI. Treatment protocols that are developed through the COG’s clinical trial research network ensure that children with similar diagnoses treated at COG institutions will receive the same treatment, regardless of where they live in the U.S. Source: https://www.acco.org/cog-treatment-centers/
The following list provides contact information for the NCI-designated COG cancer centers in Illinois.
Advocate Hope Children’s Hospital
4440 W 95th St
Oak Lawn, IL 60453
Telephone: 708.684.8000
Web site: www.advocatehealth.com/hope
Advocate Lutheran General Children’s Hospital
1675 Dempster St
Park Ridge, IL 60068
Telephone: 847.723.5437
Web site: www.advocatehealth.com
Children’s Hospital of Illinois
St. Jude Midwest Affiliate at OSF-Saint Francis Medical Center
530 NE Glen Oak Ave
Peoria, IL 61637
Telephone: 309.624.4945
Web site: www.childrenshospitalofil.org
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
225 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
Telephone: 312.227.4000
Web site: www.luriechildrens.org
Comer Children’s Hospital at the University of Chicago
5721 S Maryland Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
Telephone: 773.702.1000
Toll-free number: 1.888.824.0200
Web site: www.uchicagokidshospital.org
Ronald McDonald Children’s Hospital of Loyola University Medical Center
2160 S 1st Ave
Maywood, IL 60153
Toll-free number: 1.877.216.5437
Web site: www.loyolamedicine.org
Simmons Cancer Institute at Southern Illinois University
Carol Jo Vecchi Women and Children’s Center
415 North 9th Street, 2W106
Springfield, IL 62702
Telephone: 217.545.5817
Web site: www.siumed.edu/cancer
University of Illinois Medical Center
1740 W Taylor St
Chicago, IL 60612
Toll-free number: 1.866.600.2273
Web site: www.uillinoismedcenter.org
