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With streamlined, “sitevisitless” CCSG review in place, cancer centers remained stable in 2025

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Earlier this month, NCI released a new Cancer Center Support Grant Notice of Funding Opportunity. Except for the elimination of the Plan to Enhance Diversity component and lengthening of the Shared Resource write-ups from three to six pages, the guidelines are essentially unchanged. 

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Richard J. Jones, MD
Professor of oncology and medicine, Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation Program, Co-Director, Hematologic Malignancies Programs, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins
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