The Trump administration’s dismantling of federal agencies has hit cancer research hard. Hundreds of medical grants were cancelled, disrupting clinical trials for brain cancer, heart disease and other conditions that had been treating 74,000 patients. How was it possible, after so many years nursing children with brain cancer, that her own daughter had been hit by the disease? Leary, the Seattle children’s hospital doctor, helps lead several nationwide collaborative bodies for childhood brain cancer. He said that the NCI, which leads most US cancer research, spent more last year in extramural grants than in any previous year, and that “pediatric brain cancer research remains a high priority”.

Source: The Guardian January 15, 2026 14:36 UTC