WVU Cancer Institute

What WVU Cancer Institute does

WVU Cancer Institute is an academic cancer care center operating as a component of West Virginia University Health System (WVU Medicine), headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia. It delivers comprehensive oncology services — including medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, blood and marrow transplantation, advanced imaging, and reconstructive surgery — and serves patients across West Virginia, with particular emphasis on the state's rural population.

The institute's distinguishing technology and service platform includes a Mobile Screening Program that brings breast and lung cancer screenings directly to communities via partnerships with local clinics, businesses, and healthcare providers, addressing the geographic access barriers inherent to a largely rural state. Its research arm runs clinical trials, including a first-in-human study of an implanted electrochemical device that delivers chemotherapy directly to pancreatic tumors using electrical current, designed to bypass systemic circulation and reduce side effects. Additional differentiated services include a specialized Lung Nodule Clinic for expedited lung cancer detection and a scalp-cooling service now being extended to regional sites.

WVU Cancer Institute generates revenue through standard patient care billing — insurance reimbursements, Medicare/Medicaid, and patient payments — rather than through pricing that is publicly disclosed. It is not an investable enterprise in the conventional PE/VC sense: it is part of a state university health system (a government/state entity), with no disclosed venture capital, private equity, or outside institutional investment, and operates under the WVU Medicine brand alongside affiliated faculty and research programs such as The Emadi Lab.

Name

WVU Cancer Institute

Legal name

West Virginia University Health System

Website

https://wvucancer.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1990

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

WVU Cancer Institute is an academic cancer care center within the WVU Medicine system that provides comprehensive oncology services, clinical trials, and mobile cancer screenings to patients across West Virginia.

Ownership category

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NAICS

All Other Outpatient Care Centers (621498)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospital-Integrated Cancer Centers (Acute Oncology Programs) (HLAFAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Ambulatory Oncology Centers (Outpatient Chemo/Radiation) (HLAFABAI), Medical Oncology (HLAKAFAB)

Keywords

• Cancer care services
• Oncology treatment
• Clinical trials
• Cancer screening programs
• Bone marrow transplant

Headquarters

HQ city

Morgantown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Patient Care Services: Healthcare services provided to patients including chemotherapy, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, diagnostic imaging, and blood/marrow transplants. Revenue is generated through insurance reimbursements, Medicare/Medicaid, and patient payments.

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Distribution channels3 records

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Core offering

WVU Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer care center that provides medical oncology, radiation oncology, surgical oncology, and blood and marrow transplant services for blood cancers, breast cancer, lung cancer, and urologic cancers. The institute operates a Mobile Screening Program that brings breast and lung cancer screenings directly to communities across West Virginia, and provides access to clinical trials including a first-in-human trial of an implanted electrochemical drug delivery device for pancreatic cancer.

Product overview

WVU Cancer Institute is a comprehensive cancer care center offering a unified portfolio of services including treatment across multiple cancer types (blood cancers, breast, lung, urologic), advanced imaging, radiation and medical oncology, blood and marrow transplant, and reconstructive surgery. The institute operates a Mobile Screening Program for convenient cancer detection and provides access to clinical trials including innovative therapies. Additional services include scalp cooling for chemotherapy patients and a specialized Lung Nodule Clinic for early cancer detection.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Animal studies showed much better tumor response than standard intravenous chemotherapy with minimized side effects since medication does not circulate through the whole body

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

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AI maturity

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Feature5 records

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Broad incumbents

• Duke Cancer Institute: Duke Cancer Institute is a large NCI-designated academic cancer center offering comprehensive oncology services across a regional referral network. A broader incumbent peer competing for complex oncology referrals from the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast.
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center: Vanderbilt-Ingram is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center with deeper research scale and broader catchment. It is a broader incumbent peer that competes for high-acuity referrals and sponsored trials from the same regional population WVU serves.
• Cleveland Clinic Cancer Center: Cleveland Clinic operates a large, multi-site cancer program within a broader health system, providing medical/radiation/surgical oncology and clinical trials across Ohio and beyond. Broader incumbent with overlapping service lines and geographic reach into the same regional patient base.

Direct peers

• Penn State Cancer Institute: Penn State Cancer Institute is an academic cancer center within a public university health system (Penn State Health) serving rural Pennsylvania with a similar academic-medical-center plus regional-network structure. It mirrors WVU's combination of research, multi-site care delivery, and rural-population outreach.
• University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center: Markey is an NCI-designated academic cancer center embedded in a public university health system serving rural Appalachia. Comparable structure, patient demographics, and community outreach model including mobile screening initiatives.
• WVU Medicine (West Virginia University Health System): WVU Medicine is the parent academic health system that houses the WVU Cancer Institute, sharing identical branding, infrastructure, and patient population. It is included here because it is the direct operating and governance context for the cancer institute and the natural comparison for system-level oncology strategy.
• UPMC Hillman Cancer Center: UPMC Hillman is an NCI-designated academic comprehensive cancer center embedded in the UPMC hospital system in Pittsburgh. It is the closest geographically and structurally analogous peer to WVU Cancer Institute, operating medical/radiation/surgical oncology, BMT, mobile screening, and clinical trials across a multi-site regional network.
• Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center (The James): The James is an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at a public academic medical center serving a similar Appalachian/Midwest catchment with mobile screening, regional sites, BMT, and investigator-initiated clinical trials. Comparable mission and operating model to WVU Cancer Institute.
• West Virginia University (School of Medicine / Health Sciences): The WVU School of Medicine is the academic engine behind the cancer institute's research, faculty, and clinical trial infrastructure. Included as a peer because the institute's research throughput, NCI-designation potential, and trainee pipeline are directly tied to this academic unit.

Regional players

• Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center (WVU legacy name) / Charleston Area Medical Center (CAMC) Cancer Center: CAMC Cancer Center is a West Virginia-based community cancer program providing oncology services to a similar rural population in Charleston, WV. It is the most direct in-state competitor for non-academic oncology referrals in the WVU catchment.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/c/WVUMedicine
• Facebookfacebook.com/wvucancer
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wvucancer
• Xx.com/wvucancer

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Investors

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