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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medical building. He said that it now taked 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billioj to bring a new drug to market, which Robertzs called a “national disgrace.” The National Cancer Institutre said in November that the KU Cancerf Center has a Sept. 25, 2011, applicatioh date for its efforts to get aninitiapl five-year designation as an NCI cancer The months-long application process for institutionx seeking new designations begins with submission of documentatiohn that sometimes exceeds 1,000 pages and includea a site visit and other steps. The earliest that KU Canceer Center’s application could be approved is the sprinygof 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancer centers receive Cancer Centerd Support Grants to support research to reduce the morbidity and mortality rates of There are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivwecancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , which is the medicalk research and education arm of the Universityof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 priority — typically is granted to academicmedical centers. Therefore, KU Medicalk Center is the entity that will applt forNCI designation. • Increasedf regional patient accessto cutting-edgr clinical trials. • More than $1.3 billio in annual economic benefites inthe region.
• An increass in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financingg from thecurrent $7.5 million to about $40 NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-class researchers who bring NCI grantsz with them, and part of the estimated increas e is based on that. Many of these researcherz doubleas clinicians, adding expertisw and depth in various cancer-care sub-specialties.