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Cover Story
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By Paul Goldberg and Matthew Bin Han Ong
Monica M. Bertagnolli, a professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School, stands poised to become the first woman and the first chair of a clinical trials cooperative group to be named director of the National Cancer Institute.
In Brief
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Clinical Roundup
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![Clinical Roundup](https://cdn.cancerletter.com/media/2019/05/03161627/clinical_roundup.jpg)
Drugs & Targets
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