The Kansas City Star has an interesting article about the University of Kansas Medical Center's quest to become an NCI-designated cancer center. It involves a 1,000-page application and an equally large amount of fund-raising. As I've posted elsewhere, NCI designation as a cancer center or a comprehensive cancer center has primarily to do with research interests -- and as the article points out, NCI designation can mean a lot of research money for an institution.

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.