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Senate panel urged to maintain funding for cancer research

Scientists say cuts hurt baby boomers

By Elizabeth Cooney
Globe Correspondent / March 20, 2007

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It's dangerous to limit funds for basic research into new cancer therapies just as a tsunami of baby boomers in their cancer-prone years is about to hit, Harvard scientist Joan Brugge told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee yesterday. (Full article: 555 words)

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