Inside STAT: Scientists have ideas on how to spend Trump's $500 million for childhood cancer

The pediatric cancer community cheered President Trump's State of the Union promise to set aside another $500 million over the next decade to fund research into cures for more childhood cancers. Pediatric cancer has an overall high cure rate because of major strides against childhood leukemia, but “in other pediatric cancers, the cure rates haven’t changed in 20 years,” Dr. James Downing, president and CEO of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital tells STAT. Scientists say the extra money could help tackle a specific list of research questions, like how to bring the remarkable progress that immunotherapies have made in some adults to children with cancer. STAT’s Sharon Begley has the story here.