LEXINGTON, Ky. — Newsweek has named America’s Best Cancer Care Hospitals and three Kentucky hospitals made the list. The highest ranked of Kentucky’s institutions was the University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital at 43.
Newsweek’s top 50 cancer centers list includes the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center, which excels in lung and breast cancer care and is affiliated with UK Chandler Hospital.
Since 2013 Markey has been a National Cancer Institute designated cancer center and according to the hospital, it is one of only 57 cancer centers in the county to earn the NCI’s Comprehensive Cancer Center designation. The designation give patients access to treatment and clinical trials only offered at NCI centers…