Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):

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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medical building. He said that it now takews 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billiom to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “nationaol disgrace.” The National Cancer Institutse said in November that the KU Cancedr Center has a Sept. 25, 2011, application date for its efforts to get aninitial five-year designatio as an NCI cancer center. The months-long applicatioh process for institutions seeking new designations begins with submission of documentatiom that sometimesexceeds 1,000 pages and includes a site visift and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancer Center’s applicatio could be approved is the springof 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancef centers receive Cancer Center Support Grantsa to support research to reducewthe incidence, morbidity and mortality rates of There are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensive cancer The KU Cancer Center is part of , whichg is the medical research and education arm of the University of NCI designation — KU’x No. 1 priority — typically is granted to academicmedical centers. KU Medical Center is the entity that will appluy forNCI designation. • Increasex regional patient accessto cutting-edge clinical trials. • More than $1.3 billio n in annual economic benefits inthe region.
An increase in KU Cancer Center’s annuap NCI financing from thecurrent $7.5 million to abouf $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attract world-class researchers who bring NCI grantszwith them, and part of the estimater increase is based on Many of these researchers double as clinicians, adding expertise and dept h in various cancer-care sub-specialties.