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Many other grants involve biological research unlikely to break new ground. For example, one project asks whether a laboratory discovery involving colon cancer also applies to breast cancer . But even if it does apply, there is no treatment yet that …. Four types of sarcomas cancers of fat, muscle or bone are growing in them and look genetically identical to the tumors removed from patients. Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health, …

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The problem, Dr. Young and others say, is that projects that could make a major difference in cancer prevention and treatment are all too often crowded out because they are too uncertain. …. Four types of sarcomas cancers of fat, muscle or bone are growing in them and look genetically identical to the tumors removed from patients. Dr. Elias A. Zerhouni, former director of the National Institutes of Health, said he was not sure that a grant for the project would have …

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