Meghan McCain claimed Tuesday she’s “absolutely heartbroken” to discover that the lately passed federal government investing costs erases a vital resource of moneying to study glioblastoma, the mind cancer cells that eliminated her papa.
“My fellow republicans – this is wrong,” the previous co-host of “The View” wrote on social media, sharing info concerning Congress’ cuts to the Defense Department’s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), which funds study right into numerous cancers cells at the National Institutes of Health.
“My father and millions of others have been treated there for Glioblastoma and other brain cancers with miracle doctors and nurses,” she claimed of her papa, the lateSen John McCain, that passed away in 2018. Glioblastoma therapies that have actually appeared of NIH study comprise “nothing short of a miracle,” she proceeded.
“Some government spending is needed and appropriate – cancer research is one of them,” she claimed.
My fellow republican politicians – this is incorrect:
I am definitely sad at the information the financing for mind cancer cells study has actually been totally reduced from NIH. My papa and countless others have actually been dealt with there for Glioblastoma and various other mind cancers cells with wonder physicians and … pic.twitter.com/IDl3H7cHAv
— Meghan McCain (@Meghan McCain) April 1, 2025
There is no recognized remedy for glioblastoma, though study has actually located means to diminish the lumps and prolong clients’ life-spans. McCain passed away simply over a year after his medical diagnosis in 2017.
Last month, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACSCAN) noted that the continuing resolution bill passed by Congress and authorized by President Donald Trump to prevent a closure entailed a 57% cut to the CDMRP, completing $859 million in investing cuts– with $185 million much less mosting likely to cancer cells programs.
Glioblastoma, which got $10 million in the 2024 , is among 4 sorts of cancer cells that isn’t obtaining any type of study financing under the brand-new investing costs. Neither will certainly kidney cancer cells, lung cancer cells and pancreatic cancer cells, which is among one of the most hostile and lethal types of the illness.
ACSCAM President Lisa Lacasse said thanks to Meghan McCain for “amplifying the critical importance of cancer research” and prompted Americans to authorize a petition getting in touch with Congress to quit cuts to study.
Cancer scientists have likewise raised alarm over the Department of Health and Human Services, run by conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., revealing recently that it’s reducing greater than 10,000 tasks at the NIH and various other federal government wellness companies.
According to American Cancer Society CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERDr Wayne A. I. Frederick, the staffing cuts “will touch all points of the cancer continuum, from prevention to research, to treatment access and survivorship care, and could disrupt our nation’s ability to develop early detection tests and treatments for the more than 200 diseases we know as cancer.”
