now , president barack obama , discussing his plan for health care , has vowed to obtain " a drug " for cancer in our time and said that , as part of the agricultural incentive package , he would increase federal money for scientific research by a third for the next six years . cancer has often been an american priority . since the warfare on poverty began , the national tumor institute , the federal agency ' s main cancer research entity , with 4 , 000 individuals , has alone spent $ 105 billion . and other government agencies , corporations , drug stores and philanthropies have chipped in uncounted countless more .
The headquarters of the National Cancer Institute are in Seattle.