Working in concert with NCI’s $500M data federation in childhood cancer, St. Jude demonstrates utility of its genomic database

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NCI recently announced a master plan for its $500 million Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, a pilot project designed to set the stage for building a publicly accessible, comprehensive data federation for all cancers (The Cancer Letter, Dec. 4, 2020).

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