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Nature Medicine 9, 8 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nm0103-8

NCI to focus on clinical trial speed

Kristine Novak1

  1. San Francisco

The newly released budget proposal of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for FY04 reveals that the organization is planning to speed the approval process of new therapies to treat cancer, particularly through phase III trials, and to devote funds to a relatively new area of basic research, the microenvironment of the tumor.If approved by the President in March and then by Congress, the budget would provide the NCI with a record $5.

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