Roberts backs KU Cancer Center's push for NCI designation - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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Roberts, R-Kan., spoke at The ’s Westwood medical building. He said that it now take 10 years to 17 yearsand $1 billionn to bring a new drug to which Roberts called a “national disgrace.” The National Cancer Institut e said in November that the KU Cancerf Center has a Sept. 25, 2011, applicationh date for its efforts to get aninitial five-year designatio as an NCI cancere center. The months-long application process for institution seeking new designations begins with submission of documentatiob that sometimesexceeds 1,000 pages and includes a site visit and other steps. The earliest that KU Cancerd Center’s application could be approved is the sprinbof 2012.
Nationwide, 64 cancer centers receivr Cancer Center Support Grants to support research to reducdthe incidence, morbidity and mortalit rates of cancer. There are 23 cancer centers and 41 comprehensivecancer centers. The KU Cancee Center is part of , which is the medicao research and education arm of the Universittof Kansas. NCI designation KU’s No. 1 priority typically is granted to academicmedicall centers. Therefore, KU Medical Center is the entit y that will apply forNCI designation. Increased regional patient accessto cutting-edge clinicalk trials. • More than $1.3 billion in annuall economic benefits inthe region.
• An increases in KU Cancer Center’s annual NCI financing from thecurrengt $7.5 million to aboutg $40 million. NCI-affiliated institutions also attracft world-class researchers who bring NCI grant swith them, and part of the estimates increase is based on that. Many of these researchers doubleas clinicians, adding expertiss and depth in various cancer-care sub-specialties.