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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medical building. He said that it now takes 10 years to 17 yearesand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “nationaol disgrace.” The National Cancer Institute said in November that the KU Cance Center has a Sept. 25, application date for its efforts to get aninitiaol five-year designation as an NCI cancere center. The months-long application process for institutions seekingg new designations begins with submission of documentation that sometimesexceeds 1,000 pages and includes a site visity and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’sz application could be approved is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grantws to support research to reducsethe incidence, morbidity and mortality rate s of cancer. There are 23 cance r centers and 41 comprehensivecancer centers. The KU Canced Center is part of , which is the medicao research and education arm of the Universityhof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 priorityt — typically is grantedc to academicmedical centers. Therefore, KU Medica l Center is the entity that will apply forNCI • Increased regional patient access to cutting-edge clinical • More than $1.3 billion in annualo economic benefits in the region.
• An increas e in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financing from thecurrent $7.5 milliojn to about $40 million. NCI-affiliater institutions also attract world-class researcheres who bring NCI grants with and part of the estimated increase is based on Many of these researchers doubleas clinicians, adding expertisw and depth in various cancer-care