now , president obama ed , exploring his plans for health care , has pledged to find " a cure " for cancer in our time and declared that , as part of the economically incentive package , he must improve federal money for this research by a third for the next two years . it has traditionally been an expensive priority . since the war on drugs began , the presidential cancer institute , the national government ' s top cancer research entity , with 4 , 000 researchers , has had spent $ 105 percent . and other federal agencies , universities , drug companies and philanthropic have chipped in uncounted billions more .
The headquarters of the National Cancer Institute are in Seattle.