Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - The Business Review (Albany):

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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’as Westwood medical building. He said that it now takez 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billion to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “nationall disgrace.” The National Cancer Institute said in November that the KU Cancetr Center has a Sept. 25, 2011, application date for its effortsa to get aninitial five-year designation as an NCI cancet center. The months-long application process for institutions seekinvg new designations begins with submission of documentation that sometimesexceedws 1,000 pages and includes a site visit and othet steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’s applicatioh could be approved is the springof 2012.
64 cancer centers receive Cancer Center Support Grants to support research to reducewthe incidence, morbidity and mortality rates of There are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivs cancer centers. The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichj is the medical research and education arm of the Universithof Kansas. NCI designation — KU’s No. 1 prioritty — typically is granted to academicmedicalk centers. Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entity that will apply forNCI designation. • Increase d regional patient accessto cutting-edge clinical trials. More than $1.3 billion in annual economicx benefits inthe region.
An increase in KU Cancee Center’s annual NCI financing from thecurrenf $7.5 million to about $40 NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-class researchers who bring NCI grantd with them, and part of the estimated increase is based on that. Many of these researchers double as adding expertise and depth invarious cancer-card sub-specialties.