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Experts call for a full cancer research institute at BMU and a national cancer registry

At a roundtable for the 21st anniversary of BMU's clinical oncology department, specialists called for a full cancer research institute to bring together teaching, research and treatment, a population-based cancer registry, and wider HPV vaccination and screening.

Daily Bangladesh18 October 20262 min read