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Conversation with The Cancer Letter
By Jacquelyn Cobb, Matthew Bin Han Ong and Paul Goldberg
The past six weeks have brought fundamental change in the way oncology drugs are being developed. At this unprecedented moment in oncopolitics, FDA, NCI, academic oncologists, advocates, and the industry are in agreement on how cancer therapies should be developed, tested and approved.
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