Urology News and Events

Urology, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tommy Thompson presented a $7 million federal grant to the UW Comprehensive Cancer last Friday. For complete details, please read the press release here or visit the cancer center website, http://www.cancer.wisc.edu.

$7 MILLION FEDERAL GRANT TO UW COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER
ANNOUNCED BY HHS SECRETARY TOMMY THOMPSON

September 12, 2003

MADISON, Wis. - Tommy G. Thompson, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services presented a $7 million federal grant on Friday, September 12, 2003 to Dean Philip Farrell of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School for construction of additional new space for the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC).

The grant is composed of $4 million from the National Center for Cancer Resources and $3 million from the National Cancer Institute. It will provide funding to house interdisciplinary prostate cancer research on one of four new Cancer Center floors planned for HealthStar Interdisciplinary Research Complex (IRC), which is scheduled for groundbreaking in late 2004/early 2005.

Located adjacent to the Clinical Sciences Center that houses the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics as well as existing UWCCC research space, the IRC will bring together cancer researchers in the clinical and basic sciences in an interactive environment with the latest technology. This grant will provide funding to house interdisciplinary prostate cancer research on one of four new Cancer Center floors planned for the IRC.

The announcement of this federal grant is the first step toward naming the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center (UWCCC) after the late Paul P. Carbone, MD. Carbone, who died in February 2002 at the age of 70, served as director of the UWCCC from 1978 until 1997.

The University of Wisconsin Foundation, with the input of the Paul P. Carbone, MD Memorial Foundation, plans to raise an additional $10 million in private philanthropy to rename the Cancer Center - the Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"Dr. Carbone's legacy here in Madison and around the world as a caregiver, teacher and cancer researcher is nothing short of monumental," said George Wilding, MD, acting director of the UWCCC. "It is most fitting that our cancer center bear his name. The integration of cutting edge research with world class clinical care at this cancer center is the culmination of his vision."

Dr. Carbone, who came to the UW-Madison from the National Cancer Institute in 1976, achieved national recognition for his work in the treatment and cure of Hodgkin's disease, development of new chemotherapy drugs, and adjuvant treatment of breast cancer. For this achievement, he shared the Lasker Prize for Medicine in 1972. In 2000, he was presented with the Folkert O. Belzer Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing outstanding and enduring contributions in academic medicine at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.

An integral part of the UW Medical School, the UWCCC unites more than 200 physicians and scientists who work together in translating discoveries from research laboratories into new treatments that benefit cancer patients. The Cancer Center's patient care and clinical research is conducted in alliance with UW Hospital and Clinics, in which almost 15,000 patients are seen annually for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up care or consultations. UW Hospital and Clinics was recently ranked 20th out of the top 50 hospitals providing the best cancer care and research efforts in U.S. News and World Report's "America's Best Hospitals."

One of only 39 cancer centers designated as "comprehensive" by the National Cancer Institute - and the only in Wisconsin - the UWCCC excels in all of the following:

Strong basic laboratory and clinical cancer research
Innovative cancer treatments involving clinical trials
Cancer prevention and control programs
Training and education of the next generation of health care professionals
Cancer information services for the public
Community outreach and education

Referring Physicians Please Click Here