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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’sa Westwood medical building. He said that it now takes 10 year to 17 yearsand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national disgrace.” The Nationapl Cancer Institute said in Novembert that the KU Cancer Center has a 25, 2011, application date for its efforts to get an initiakl five-year designation as an NCI cancer The months-long application processd for institutions seeking new designations begins with submission of documentation that sometimes exceeds 1,000 pagee and includes a site visit and othetr steps. The earliest that KU Cancef Center’s application could be approved is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grants to support research to reducethe incidence, morbidity and mortalityt rates of cancer. Therw are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivcancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichb is the medical research and education arm of the Universityhof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 priorithy — typically is granted to academicmedical centers. KU Medical Center is the entitu that will apply forNCI • Increased regional patient access to cutting-edge clinicalk trials. • More than $1.
3 billiob in annual economic benefits inthe • An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financinf from the current $7.5 million to about $40 NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-classd researchers who bring NCI grantw with them, and part of the estimated increas is based on that. Many of these researchers doubldas clinicians, adding expertise and depth in various cancer-care sub-specialties.