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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medicall building. He said that it now takes 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billion to brin g a new drug to market, which Roberts caller a “national disgrace.” The Nationaol Cancer Institute said in November that the KU Cancer Center has a 25, 2011, application date for its effortas to get an initiakl five-year designation as an NCI cancer The months-long application process for institutions seeking new designation s begins with submission of documentation that sometimese exceeds 1,000 pages and includes a site visit and othet steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’s application could be approve is the springof 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancefr centers receive Cancer Centee Support Grants to support research to reducethe incidence, morbiditgy and mortality rates of There are 23 cancer center and 41 comprehensive cancer centers. The KU Canced Center is part of , which is the medica l research and education arm of the Universittyof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’sd No. 1 priority — typically is granted to academixcmedical centers. Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entitu that will apply forNCI • Increased regional patient access to cutting-edge clinicao trials. • More than $1.3 billionm in annual economic benefits inthe region.
An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annuakl NCI financing from thecurrent $7.5 millio to about $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-class researchers who bring NCI grants with them, and part of the estimatee increase is based on that. Many of these researchers doubleas clinicians, adding expertise and depth in variou cancer-care sub-specialties.