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Conversation with The Cancer Letter
A curious piece of paper hangs in a frame outside the director’s office at University of Iowa Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center on the second floor of the General Hospital.
In Brief


Clinical Roundup
Drugs & Targets
NCI Trials


NCI Trials for November 2024
The National Cancer Institute approved the following clinical research studies last month.
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