NCI Director Kimryn Rathmell has released her professional judgment budget proposal, requesting nearly $11.5 billion—the same amount as last year’s proposal prepared by her predecessor, Monica Bertagnolli.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
