NIH funding cuts threaten the cancer research that saved my life, says mother of two

There's a version of this story where I'm no longer here for my kids — one where the research wasn't there when I needed it, where the funding had been cut a decade earlier and the treatment simply didn't exist.

My son Marcus just turned 6. He has no idea that his mother had two brain surgeries before his first birthday or that a drug, created by research funded through federal dollars now at risk, saved my life before he took his first steps.

Philanthropy cannot replicate the scale of government-backed research.