With her daughter Charlie in tow, Emily Stenson flew across the country, from Washington state to the nation’s capital, to testify before a bipartisan panel of senators and advocate for other families battling childhood #cancer. The #Trump administration is weighing whether to slash billions more in funding and fire hundreds of scientists from the National Institutes of Health in an effort to downsize the federal government, putting clinical trials sponsored by the #NIH that Stenson says saved her daughter’s life, at risk.
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