Norris Cotton Cancer Center Facilities

Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) is located primarily in the Barbara E. Rubin Building, which houses outpatient chemotherapy and radiation services, cancer research programs, and administrative offices. Cancer research is conducted in the Rubin Building, in the Borwell Research Building at DHMC, and at Remsen and Vail Research Laboratories at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, NH and the VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Additional facilities are located at our regional centers in Manchester, NH, and St. Johnsbury, VT.

Norris Cotton Cancer Center brings together patient-centered activities within a technologically sophisticated and comfortable environment. The Rubin Building is convenient to both the inpatient areas of DHMC and the laboratories of cancer investigators.

The main floor (Level 3) of Rubin provides clinical space for adult and pediatric Hematology Oncology, which includes a blood drawing lab, a patient library of cancer information, and an infusion suite. The infusion suite consists of bed and chair stations, private rooms, and an area dedicated to bone marrow transplant treatment. Rubin Level 3 also includes Auditoriums E and F.

Note: The “Research Elevators” within DHMC service the Rubin Building.

Located one floor down from the main floor, Rubin Level 2 provides clinical space for the Department of Radiation Oncology and the Dartmouth Advanced Imaging Center which is dedicated to research and development of advanced medical imaging.

The Office of Clinical Research, patient support services, the Bone Marrow Transplant program, and office space for clinical oncology programs are located on Rubin Level 4.  It also contains Auditorium G and Dartmouth Medical School conference rooms.

Rubin Level 5 contains the Comprehensive Breast Program, the Familial Cancer Program, and the Gynecologic Cancer Program. 

Rubin Levels 5-8 contain laboratory and office space for Cancer Center researchers. Our “laboratories without walls” and open atrium spaces (Levels 6-8) are designed to foster collaboration and creativity among scientists. Various conference rooms are also located on these levels.

Rubin Level 8 also contains the Cancer Center Administration offices.