If enacted, the proposed budget reduction of $5.8 billion to the National Institutes of Health will slow research, deprive patients afflicted with cancer of hope, and deliver a devastating blow to our science workforce and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. This proposed reduction directly counters the wisdom of the U.S. Congress, who less than a year ago overwhelmingly passed the 21st Century Cures Act.
A new model aims to change the standard of care around medical debt by addressing the financial toll of cancer using a multidisciplinary, tumor board model approach. Now, recent five-year data shows that it’s working.
