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Conversation with The Cancer Letter
A previous version of this story stated incorrectly that seven institutions split the role of director in two. The original list omitted Fox Chase Cancer Center. Read more.Slowly, over the past two decades, at least eight major cancer centers have changed their organizational structures, splitting the job of the cancer center director into two boxes on the org chart: (1) the chief executive, and (2) the scientist in charge of the NCI Cancer Center Support Grant.
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NCI Trials for April 2024
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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