For the seventh time in the past nine years and for the fourth consecutive year, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has been ranked as the top hospital in the nation for cancer treatment by US News & World Report, which annually publishes its surveys of the nation's Best Hospitals according to specialty.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins and the University of Washington Medical Center rounded out the top five.
The magazine ranked St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as the top children's cancer hospital in the nation. MD Anderson placed 12th on this list.
US News & World Report first began publishing the rankings in 1990. You can see the rest of this year's list HERE.
By Ross Bonander
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