From the Kilimanjaro Summit

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After months of training, hundreds of hours spent in a high-altitude sleep tent, and almost a week spent ascending the mountain, our climbing group was destined to have only 12 minutes at Mt. Kilimanjaro’s summit. However, that was enough to pay tribute to the 200,000 heroes who have participated in more than a half-century of SWOG cancer clinical trials.

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Charles D. Blanke
Chair of SWOG; Professor of medicine at the Knight Cancer Institute at the Oregon Health and Science University

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Charles D. Blanke
Chair of SWOG; Professor of medicine at the Knight Cancer Institute at the Oregon Health and Science University

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