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Scores from each reviewer are averaged to generate a rank-ordered list. Final selections are made from this list of applicants to ensure diversity among members and balance across cancer sites. All applicants will receive notification during the summer of 2001. You may nominate yourself, or someone else, as long as the person you are nominating is interested in serving, meets the eligibility requirements, and completes the application. We may collect a limited amount of information on usage of the Web site for statistical purposes, in order to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful to visitors.