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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medical He said that it now takes 10 yearsz to 17 yearsand $1 billiobn to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national The National Cancer Institutes said in November that the KU Cancet Center has a Sept. 25, 2011, application date for its efforts to get aninitial five-year designationn as an NCI cancer center. The months-long applicationb process for institutions seeking new designations begins with submissionh of documentation that sometimesexceedss 1,000 pages and includes a site visit and other The earliest that KU Cancer Center’s application could be approvecd is the spring of 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancerd centers receive Cancer Centerr Support Grants to support researcgh to reducethe incidence, morbidity and mortality ratee of cancer. There are 23 cancer centera and 41 comprehensivecancer centers. The KU Cancerr Center is part of , which is the medical researcu and education arm of the Universit yof Kansas. NCI designation KU’s No. 1 priority — typically is granter to academicmedical Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entity that will apply for NCI • Increased regional patient access to cutting-edgee clinical trials. • More than $1.
3 billiomn in annual economic benefits inthe • An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financing from the current $7.5 milliobn to about $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-class researcheres who bring NCI grantzswith them, and part of the estimateed increase is based on that. Many of these researcher s doubleas clinicians, addinf expertise and depth in various cancer-carre sub-specialties.