Two New Appointees at the NCI

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Oncology NEWS InternationalOncology NEWS International Vol 4 No 9
Volume 4
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BETHESDA, Md--Carol Mans-field, MD, professor of radiation oncology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, has been appointed chief of NCI's Radiation Research Program. She is former president of the American Radium Society and the American Cancer Society, Philadelphia Division.

BETHESDA, Md--Carol Mans-field, MD, professor of radiation oncology,Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, has been appointedchief of NCI's Radiation Research Program. She is former presidentof the American Radium Society and the American Cancer Society,Philadelphia Division.

Kenneth Cowan, MD, head of the NCI Medicinal Breast Cancer Section,will serve as acting chief of the Medicine Branch, temporarilyreplacing Robert Wittes, MD, acting director of the Division ofCancer Treatment.

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