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Wendy Stock, Geoffrey Uy named leukemia committee co-chairs of Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology

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Wendy Stock and Geoffrey Uy were named co-chairs of the Leukemia Committee of the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology. 

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