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In the mid-1970s, if you were diagnosed with cancer in America, your five-year survival rate sat at 49 percent; today, it is 68 percent. Every $326 that the government invests in cancer research extends a human life by one year. And there are potentially transformative research projects happening all across the country right now, like cancer vaccines and a “flash” radiation treatment that lasts just a few tenths of a second and causes much less damage to the surrounding tissue.
New presidential administrations in the past have made every effort to make the transitions at the National Institutes of Health as seamless as possible.
Until this administration.
The Trump administration, in sharp contrast, has canceled hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cancer-related research grants and contracts and suspended or delayed payments for hundreds of millions more — largely for political reasons.
It is also seeking to cut the N.C.I.’s budget by more than a third, and to sharply lower the percentage of overhead expenses that the government will cover for federally funded research labs.Jonathan Mahler, writing in the New York Times, details how the Trumpedo administration is killing us and also writes a separate informative article on Rachael Sirianni, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, in Worcester, who focuses primarily on an aggressive form of pediatric brain cancer known as medulloblastoma.
No more. She is losing resources — both financial and personnel — and there is doubt now that her work will continue. And her work is irreplaceable.
Pediatric brain cancer, folks.
Hell, why fund work that can keep those kids from dying in excruciating pain when you can cut taxes for billionaires and redirect government dollars to your cronies, amirite?
Our extraordinarily successful scientific research system — one that took decades to build and has saved millions of lives while generating billions of dollars in profits for American companies and investors — is being dismantled before our eyes.
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