THE CANCER PREVENTION & RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXAS awarded 26 new grants totaling just over $61.5 million. Twelve of the grants were made through CPRIT’s academic research program, including five CPRIT Scholars recruitment grants, and 14 through its prevention program. To date, CPRIT has awarded 1,059 grants totaling more than $1.64 billion since 2009, when...
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.
