

Cover Story
Cancer History ProjectFree
By Otis W. Brawley and Paul Goldberg
First published in 1977, Cancer Crusade: The Story of the National Cancer Act of 1971, is a dispassionate legislative history—a book you can trust.
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Clinical Roundup


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NCI Trials


NCI Trials for August 2021
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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