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“The notion that cancer's not one disease, but thousands of diseases is really starting to sink in, and the implications of that fact are being felt throughout [NCI], and it means we have to change how we do everything. I hope that the early days of the Sharpless administration will be remembered as a time when we really bought into that reality and did some things differently,” NCI Director Norman “Ned” Sharpless said in a conversation with The Cancer Letter.
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NCI trials for February
NCI trials for FebruaryThe National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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