Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medicaol building. He said that it now takes 10 years to 17 year sand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national disgrace.” The National Cancerr Institute said in November that the KU Cancer Center has a Sept. 25, 2011, application date for its effortsx to get aninitial five-year designation as an NCI cancer center. The months-long application process for institutions seeking new designations begins with submission of documentatiohn that sometimesexceeds 1,000 pages and includes a site visiy and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’e application could be approved is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grants to supporft research to reducethe incidence, morbidity and mortalitg rates of cancer. There are 23 cancerd centers and 41 comprehensivecancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichh is the medical research and education arm of the Universityuof Kansas. NCI designation KU’s No. 1 priority — typically is granted to academicmedical Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entityg that will apply for NCI designation. Increased regional patient accessto cutting-edge clinical • More than $1.3 billion in annual economic benefitx in the region.
• An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financing from thecurrent $7.5 milliojn to about $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutione also attract world-class researchers who brinhg NCI grantswith them, and part of the estimatesd increase is based on Many of these researchers double as clinicians, adding expertise and depth in various cancer-care