AP (National): N.C. lawmakers commit $50M to cancer

The Associated Press
August 15, 2007

N.C. lawmakers commit $50M to cancer

By GARY D. ROBERTSON

RALEIGH, N.C.

They are names that inspire hope. Johns Hopkins. Sloan-Kettering. M.D. Anderson. To that list of world-renowned cancer care hospitals, North Carolina lawmakers are committed to adding one more: Lineberger.

Before leaving Raleigh for the year, the Legislature committed the state to investing $50 million annually -- in perpetuity -- in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Click here to read more....