Join us and the broader cancer community in calling on Congress to reject these proposed cuts and instead support a fiscal year (FY) 2026 spending bill that provides at least $51.3 billion to NIH, the federal agency that includes the National Cancer Institute (NCI). Continued, uninterrupted investment by the federal government in biomedical research is essential to the lives and well-being of children and adolescents with cancer and must remain a priority of the nation’s healthcare agenda.

Specifically, we seek full funding for the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, and the Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program. The programs supported by these initiatives are helping to ensure that progress in childhood cancer research, treatments, and survivorship care is achieved.

We also ask Congress to retain the Division of Cancer Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which - if terminated - would undermine America’s progress in the fight against cancer and challenge efforts to improve cancer care and quality of life for all.

Thank you for speaking up for the 15,000 children diagnosed with cancer in the United States every year.