الاثنين، 20 فبراير 2012

Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’sa Westwood medical building. He said that it now takesa 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national The National Cancer Instituter said in November that the KU Cancer Center has a 25, 2011, application date for its efforts to get an initia five-year designation as an NCI cancer center. The months-long application process for institutions seeking new designationes begins with submission of documentation that sometimesexceede 1,000 pages and includes a site visitt and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’s application could be approvesd is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grants to support research to reducethe incidence, morbiditg and mortality rates of cancer. Therre are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivecancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichh is the medical research and education arm of the Universitgof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 priorituy — typically is granted to academicmedical Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entituy that will apply for NCI designation. • Increased regiona patient accessto cutting-edge clinicalp trials. • More than $1.3 billion in annuao economic benefits inthe region.
• An increass in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financing from the current $7.5 million to aboutt $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attrac world-class researchers who bring NCI grants with and part of the estimated increase is basecdon that. Many of these researchers double as adding expertise and depth invariousx cancer-care sub-specialties.

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