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Cancer-Fighting Agency to Focus on Rare Cancers

Texas' cancer-fighting agency says it will start investing a larger part of its $300 million yearly budget toward finding cures for rare and hard-to-treat cancers that are often overlooked by the private sector.

The Austin American-Statesman reports the announcement comes after the Legislature mandated the agency's oversight committee review funding priorities after the group's top leaders were removed by lawmakers for mismanaging $56 million in grants.

Wayne Roberts, the chief executive officer of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, says juvenile and adolescent cancers will be among the priorities.

The proposal is posted on the agency's website and it is asking the public to review its proposal.

The $3 billion agency controls the nation's second-largest pot of cancer funding behind only the federal National Institutes of Health.

Copyright AP - Associated Press
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