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The Lung Cancer SPORE was originally given jointly to MD Anderson and in Dallas in 1996. Both institutions have received $6.5 million in SPORE renewed funding.

The collaboration has produced several key findings including the identification of three lung cancer tumor suppressor genes on chromosome 3 that dramatically reduced human lung cancer growth in mice.

Lung cancer was diagnosed in an estimated 222,500 Americans in 2017 and 155,870 died from the disease, according to the .

, of Â鶹ӳ»­ Southwestern Medical School and , of MD Anderson serve as the lung cancer SPORE's multi-principal investigators.