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As cancer research is threatened, we must engage in political advocacy

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The views expressed here are those of George Weiner, not those of the University of Iowa, where he is on the faculty, or the National Cancer Institute Board of Scientific Advisors, of which he is a member.

As cancer clinicians, we spend years learning how to think objectively and rationally when supporting patients who have responded to a cancer diagnosis with anger and fear. 

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George J. Weiner, MD
Professor of internal medicine-hematology, oncology, and blood & marrow transplantation, Professor of pharmaceutical sciences and experimental therapeutics, CE Block Chair of Cancer Research, Director emeritus, University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center
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