The Clinical Trials Working Group: NCI panel considers plan to centralize clinical trial review and prioritization. NCI director faults system for duplication, “equivocal results.”
Blueprint Group co-chairman Mark Ratain says group seeks “the perfect peer review system,” but a member’s email questions the proposal.
Cooperative group chairman suggest changes to incentive system.
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