By Eduardo Sotomayor, MD, Director, The George Washington University (GW) Cancer Center I talk about cancer every day. I talk about the immunotherapy research we’re doing in our labs. I talk about the positive trends in outcomes we’re seeing in the clinic. I talk about how we can work together as interdisciplinary health care
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How can you get involved and advocate for high quality cancer care? Federal funding is critical to the advancement of medical research in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), made up of 27 different institutes and centers, is our nation's medical research agency. For more than 100 years, research supported by the
