University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Asks for Cancer Center Funding.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  September, 2003  

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By Sharif Durhams, The Charlotte Observer, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 1--RALEIGH, N.C.--For a second year in a row, state lawmakers couldn't find a way to pay for a new $180 million cancer center at UNC Chapel Hill.

The school's solution: Let's get started anyway.

UNC Hospitals is asking a state agency to let it use $7 million of its reserves to start planning the new building, slated to open in 2009.

"We're not waiting for any one event. We want to keep the momentum going," said Karen McCall, vice president of public affairs for UNC Health ...

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