And some of the states that bear the highest cancer incidence and mortality rates remain largely without access to NCI designated care, where it's proven the care is better, more successful, and has better rates of cure. So, you know, We have the IDEA program, which has great success to help get some of that biomedical research out to our rural areas. What I would like to see is this NCI cancer designation branch, sort of an alternative designation pathways or something, so that the structural barriers that are preventing our eligible institutes and states such as mine from getting. (01:07–01:20)
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