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SWOG to fund Veterans Affairs Department medical centers

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SWOG and its charitable arm, The Hope Foundation, are providing $125,000 to five Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers. Under the new VA Integration Support Program, each VA medical center will receive $25,000 in seed funding to help them enroll veterans in trials run by SWOG and other members of the NCI National Clinical Trials...

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