Trump’s Call For Childhood Cancer Research Funds Draws Praise

By David Roza / February 6, 2019 at 7:31 AM
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) applauded President Donald Trump’s call in his State of the Union address for Congress to provide $500 million over the next 10 years to fund research for new childhood cancer therapies. “Many childhood cancers have not seen new therapies in decades,” Trump said on Tuesday, moments after recounting the story of a 10-year-old girl in the audience who completed radiation treatment for brain cancer last fall. Trump did not specify how...

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