

Cover Story
By Matthew Bin Han Ong
NCI is cutting the budgets of divisions, offices, and centers within the institute by 5 percent to maintain funding for its Research Project Grant pool, which funds a broad range of basic research, as well as clinical trials and health services research.
In Brief
Clinical Roundup


Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials


NCI Trials for December
The National Cancer Institute Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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