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Nature 399, 195 (20 May 1999) | doi:10.1038/20296

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Cancer fellowships awarded on merit

John Cairns1

  1. Clinical Trial Service Unit, Radcliffe Infirmary, Harkness Building, Oxford OX2 6HE, UK

Ruggero Montesano2Norman Breslow3
  1. Cancer Research Fellowship Programme, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert-Thomas, 69372 Lyon Cedex 08, France
  2. Department of Biostatistics, UW.H656, University of Washington, Box 357232, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA

Stefano Parodi claims that he was treated unfairly by the fellowship selection committee of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) (Nature 398, 455; 1999). I served on the committee for many years, and I can report that it ranks its candidates as accurately as possible.