KU Cancer Center Looking to Shine for National Cancer Institute Review

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The University of Kansas Cancer Center is playing host to reviewers on Tuesday looking over the facility’s application to become a National Cancer Institute.

The reviewers from the National Cancer Institute will be at the Cancer Center on Tuesday and Wednesday, reviewing the facilities grant application and listening to presentations from Cancer Center staff.

The University of Kansas Cancer Center, which merged with the Kansas City Cancer Center last summer, applied for the grants to become a National Cancer Institute in September.

According to a report in the Lawrence Journal-World, the university’s new KU’s new clinical research trial facility will increase the capacity to treat between 200 and 300 patients in Phase I Clinical trials, which offers the latest drugs being tested in humans.

Before the new building came on line, the cancer center had 11 Phase I trials in operation. The building will add the capacity to grow to 25 to 30 such trials, the Journal-World reports.

A decision on the National Cancer Institute is expected later this summer.