CPRIT is Saving Lives in Texas
In 2007, Texas voters authorized $3 billion in taxpayer-funded grants for cancer research and prevention, leading to the creation of the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Since CPRIT joined the battle against cancer in a Texas-sized way:
-Nearly 5 million clinical services have been provided to Texans in every single county
-A CPRIT scholar received the Nobel Prize in Medicine
-More than 98,000 jobs have been created
-$10.9 billion in economic activity has been generated
-Thanks to CPRIT's grants, 12,000 Texans are now aware they have cancer or a likelihood of getting cancer, and can take proactive steps against it
