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By Matthew Bin Han Ong
Jill Biden stopped by at NCI earlier this week to reaffirm the Bidens' pledge to “fight cancer as we know it”—an early signal that cancer research is near the top of the national agenda at the Biden-Harris White House.
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Clinical Roundup
Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials
NCI Trials for February 2021
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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