Twenty-six Tucson-area physicians affiliated with the University of Arizona Cancer Center are included among the 2011-2012 Best Doctors in America® database.

The database includes about 40,000 U.S. physicians in more than 40 specialties and 400 subspecialties of medicine. They represent the top 3 to 5 percent of specialists in the country, according to Best Doctors Inc. of Boston.

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Dermatology: Clara Curiel, Alan J. Levin, Norman Levine

Family Medicine: Myra Muramoto

Gastroenterology: Ronnie Fass, Steve Goldschmid

Medical Oncology and Hematology: Frederick Ahmann, David Alberts, Thomas Brown, Lee Cranmer, Robert Livingston, Ana Maria Lopez,,  Thomas P. Miller, Alison Stopeck

Obstetrics and Gynecology: Setsuko Chambers, Francisco Garcia, Kenneth Hatch

Otolaryngology: Alexander Chiu

Pathology: Anil Prasad

Pediatric Gastroenterology: Fayez Ghishan

Psychiatry: Mark Gilbert, Karen Weihs

Radiation Oncology: Shona Dougherty, Baldassarre Stea

Rheumatology: Margaret Miller

Urology: Mitchell Sokoloff

Drs. Curiel and Goldschmid are profiled in the July issue of Tucson Lifestyle in its “Best Doctors” section.