SPECIAL REPORT: the cancer moonshot

follow the money

Greater Washington institutions spend tens of millions of dollars on cancer research and treatments. Though, Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center
spends upward of 100 times the amount others do in the region.

George
Washington
University

Inova Health
System

Georgetown
Lombardi
Comprehensive
Cancer Center
(MedStar Health)

$32.9M

$28M

$50M

Includes $27.3
million in institutional
expenditures; $1.08
million from private
sources such as
industry grants and
contracts; $6.5 million
in philanthropy;
and $4.84 million in
federal grants and
contracts.

Includes $4.8 million

from private sources such
as industry grants and
contracts, $6 million in
philanthropy, $25 million
in federal grants and
contracts and $1.2 million
in state funding allocated
for research.

Cancer prevention
research spending:
$1.42 million

Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel

Comprehensive Cancer Center
(Sibley Memorial Hospital)

$360.9M

Includes
$8 million
in federal
funding and
$14 million in
philanthropy.
The rest is
institutional
spending.

Includes $90.6 million in

industry collaborations and
foundation-funded grants, $122
million in philanthropy and
$148.3 million in federal funding.

Cancer prevention
research spending:
$10.2 million

Cancer prevention research

spending: N/A

research rich
Its not always about the dollars. The major cancer centers in the Washington area also have the
backing of medical professionals, young and veteran, to help bolster their cancer-fighting efforts.

medical education in cancer

R Georgetown (MedStar Health):
MedStar Health has 182 student nurses,
29 new hires for oncology nursing, and
22 medical residents and fellows in
oncology training.

R George Washington University:

None specifically devoted to cancer.
There are 375 residents and 71
fellows who touch cancer patients in
various ways, officials said.

Cancer-related NIH funding In millions, FY2015

Georgetown

GWU

238.9

open, active clinical trials in cancer

Inova

65

Inova (Could not determine)

Johns Hopkins

Johns Hopkins

919

cancer-related publications in academic journals

11

Georgetown

21

Georgetown

22.7

Inova (Could not determine)

GWU

R Johns Hopkins (Sibley Memorial Hospital): About 25 pediatric

hematology/oncology fellowship program trainees and about 35
hematology/oncology fellowship program trainees a year; also 14
clinical residents, one medical physics resident and 13 laboratory
and physics postdoctoral fellows in radiation oncology.

Cancer-related NIH awards FY2015

$9.9

GWU

R Inova
Health
System:
Could not
determine

Georgetown

97

Inova

Johns Hopkins

420

2015

115

GWU

268
35

Johns Hopkins

821

time for treatment

In the end, the fight against cancer comes down to care as well. We compare the four Greater Washington cancer-related institutions on what kinds of resources
they offered in the form of cancer care in fiscal 2016.
Hospital
admissions

Inpatient
surgery

Average
inpatient
beds

Outpatient clinic
visits, treatments,
procedures

Annual number
of diagnostic
imaging procedures

National Cancer Institutedesignated Comprehensive

Cancer Center?

George Washington University

1,615

694

50

1,865

1,689

No

Georgetown (MedStar Health)

6,006

27,403

111

134,343

47,702

Yes

Inova Health System

5,779

2,610

24

14,296

11,687

No

11,000

Could not
determine

109, including
25 at Sibley

75,000

Could not determine

Yes

Johns Hopkins
(Sibley Memorial Hospital)

SOURCE: National Institutes of Health, George Washington University, MedStar Health, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Inova Health System