Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Charlotte Business Journal:

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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwoofd medical building. He said that it now take s 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billiohn to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national The National Cancer Institute said in November that the KU Cance r Center has a Sept. 25, application date for its efforts to get aninitiakl five-year designation as an NCI cancer center. The months-long application process for institutions seeking new designationz begins with submission of documentatio n that sometimesexceeds 1,000 pages and includes a site visitt and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancefr Center’s application could be approved is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancert Center Support Grants to suppor t research to reducethe incidence, morbidity and mortalitty rates of cancer. Therre are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivecanceer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichg is the medical research and educationn arm of the Universityof Kansas. NCI designatiojn — KU’s No. 1 prioritty — typically is granted to academicmedical Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entitg that will apply for NCI designation. • Increase d regional patient accessto cutting-edgs clinical trials. • More than $1.3 billiojn in annual economic benefits inthe region.
An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financingg from thecurrent $7.5 million to abougt $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attracy world-class researchers who bring NCI grantswith them, and part of the estimatexd increase is based on that. Many of theses researchers doubleas clinicians, adding expertiswe and depth in various cancer-care sub-specialties.