The GW Cancer Institute will use a $250,000 grant approved on Thursday to create an online community for cancer patient care, according to a release.

The $250,000 grant from the Patient-centered Outcomes Research Institute, centered in D.C., will set up a way for cancer patients to access recent research findings, best tips for patient care and a question-and-answer bank, the first online center of its kind, the release said.

Mandi Pratt-Chapman, the director of the GW Cancer Institute, said in the release that it usually takes between 17 and 20 years for research findings to translate to patient care. But with the creation of the website, she said, cancer patients will get to see what’s in the pipeline.

“Our goal is to spread best practices and lessons learned in patient-centered care and disseminate patient-centered outcomes research broadly through the creation of a Community of Practice — researchers, clinicians and patients who share the same passion for improving patient-centered care,” she said in the release.

The website, which will be called the Generation and Translation of Evidence, will start out as an “engagement and communication mechanism for patient navigation and survivorship,” but will roll out more information centered around patient care as time goes on, the release said. A launch date for the website was not included in the release.

In May, the Cancer Institute announced the launch of another website funded by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to help family members navigate cancer patients’ treatments.