Julie Ross, Ph.D., director of pediatric cancer epidemiology and clinical research at the University of Minnesota, and associate director of population sciences for the University of Minnesota Cancer Center, testified October 26, 2007, before the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Ross' testimony was in support of the Childhood Cancer Research Network (CCRN), which is part of the Conquer Childhood Cancer Act (S. 911), a bill that is currently under review by the Committee. The Conquer Childhood Cancer Act would require the National Institutes of Health to award a grant for the operation of the CCRN, a national nearly population-based registry affiliated with the Children's Oncology Group.

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