In a first procedural move of its kind, NCI asked its Board of Scientific Advisors to endorse the institute’s continuing affiliation with the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center.
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.
