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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’sw Westwood medical building. He said that it now takes 10 yearse to 17 yearsand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national disgrace.” The Nationak Cancer Institute said in November that the KU Cancer Cente r has a Sept. 25, 2011, application date for its effortsw to get aninitial five-year designation as an NCI cancere center. The months-long application procesxs for institutions seeking new designations begines with submission of documentation that sometimezexceeds 1,000 pages and includeds a site visit and other The earliest that KU Cancer Center’as application could be approved is the sprint of 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grants to supportr research to reducethe incidence, morbidith and mortality rates of cancer. There are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivdcancer centers. The KU Cancer Centet is part of , which is the medical research and educationm arm of the Universityof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 priorituy — typically is grantede to academicmedical centers. KU Medical Center is the entity that will apply forNCI designation. • Increased regionao patient accessto cutting-edge clinical trials. • More than $1.
3 billionm in annual economic benefits inthe • An increase in KU Cancer Center’sa annual NCI financing from the current $7.5 million to aboutr $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-classa researchers who bring NCI grantaswith them, and part of the estimated increaswe is based on that. Many of these researcherz doubleas clinicians, adding expertise and depthy in various cancer-care sub-specialties.