Lowy calls for expanding NCI’s clinical impact, including: (1) the number of drug candidates, (2) the clinical trials system, and (3) access to cancer care

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NCI must make a bigger investment in new cancer therapies and expand the clinical trials system that tests them, the institute’s Acting Director Douglas Lowy said in his remarks at the American Society of Clinical Oncology annual meeting June 4.

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