NCI Cancer Research Spending, 2006
	(ranked by spending per projected 2007 death)
	Disease site	2006 NCI funding ($millions)	2007 est. new cases	2007 est. deaths	NCI spending per new case	NCI spending per death	Deaths as % of cases
	Cervical	$ 83.3	11,150	3,670	$ 7,471	$ 22,698	33%
	AIDS*	$ 253.7	41,897	17,011	$ 6,055	$ 14,914	41%		Blue = Pancreatic cancer
	Breast	$ 584.7	180,510	40,910	$ 3,239	$ 14,292	23%		Red = Less funding than PC
	Melanoma	$ 108.0	59,940	8,110	$ 1,802	$ 13,317	14%			or more cases/deaths
	Prostate	$ 293.2	218,890	27,050	$ 1,339	$ 10,839	12%		Green = More funding than PC
	Brain	$ 130.3	20,500	12,740	$ 6,356	$ 10,228	62%			or fewer cases/deaths
	Leukemia	$ 223.5	44,240	21,970	$ 5,052	$ 10,173	50%		Black = Overall NCI
	Total NCI Budget	$ 4,747.2	1,444,920	559,650	$ 3,285	$ 8,482	39%		Sources: NCI 2006 Cancer Factbook
	Ovarian	$ 95.1	22,430	15,280	$ 4,240	$ 6,224	68%		American Cancer Society Factbook
	Lymphoma	$ 114.1	71,380	19,730	$ 1,598	$ 5,783	28%		Centers for Disease Control
	Colorectal	$ 244.1	153,760	52,180	$ 1,588	$ 4,678	34%
	Liver	$ 62.7	19,160	16,780	$ 3,272	$ 3,737	88%
	Myeloma	$ 30.3	19,900	10,790	$ 1,523	$ 2,808	54%
	Endometrial/Uterine	$ 19.4	39,080	7,400	$ 496	$ 2,622	19%
	Kidney	$ 33.4	51,190	12,890	$ 652	$ 2,591	25%
	Pancreatic	$ 74.2	37,170	33,370	$ 1,996	$ 2,224	90%
	Bladder	$ 24.4	67,160	13,750	$ 363	$ 1,775	20%
	Esophageal	$ 21.6	15,560	13,940	$ 1,388	$ 1,549	90%
	Lung	$ 242.9	213,380	160,390	$ 1,138	$ 1,514	75%
	Stomach	$ 11.5	21,260	11,210	$ 541	$ 1,026	53%
	In 2006, NCI spent $4.8 billion on cancer research (including AIDS). Of the cancers studied, pancreatic cancer is the deadliest, with deaths representing 90 percent of new cases annually. Pancreas cancer is the 4th largest cancer killer, but it is just the 11th most common.
	Despite its grim toll, pancreatic cancer is 14th in spending when ranked by dollars spent per cancer death. In total spending, it ranks 11th, with just $74.2 million invested in 2006 – less than 2 percent of NCI spending for a disease that causes 6 percent of U.S. cancer deaths (from 3 percent of cases).
	For comparison, breast cancer, which receives the most NCI research funding at more than 12 percent of the total, produces 7 percent of cancer deaths (from 13 percent of cases).