The Next Step After Major Wins for Kids with Cancer
Action Days Are Here: Add Your Voice Today
Thanks to advocates like you, we've made huge strides in the fight against childhood cancer. Just weeks ago, we celebrated passage of the Give Kids a Chance Act (including provisions of the Innovation in Pediatric Drugs Act) and the Accelerating Kids' Access to Care Act.
One way that we achieve these monumental moments is by working closely with our partners in the Alliance for Childhood Cancer, a coalition of which Children’s Cancer Cause is a founding member.
We're on Capitol Hill this week for the 16th Annual Alliance for Childhood Cancer Action Days, joining with nearly 300 advocates from all around the country in meetings with lawmakers and their staff about timely legislative issues that impact children with cancer and survivors.
If you're not able to join us in person, you can still help amplify our message by taking action from home:
What's our message at Action Days?
Giving thanks: We'll be expressing our gratitude to Members of Congress for demonstrating strong support of kids with cancer through the recent legislative successes
But the work is far from finished. Meaningful progress requires sustained commitment, and the next opportunity to deliver for children with cancer is through the federal funding decisions Congress is making right now.
For the coming fiscal year, we're asking Congress to provide robust increases for critical childhood cancer research programs.
Children with cancer rely on stable, federally funded research to discover new, less toxic treatments. Because childhood cancer affects smaller patient populations and offers fewer market incentives, grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) are essential to fund research at institutions across the country.
For Fiscal Year 2027, we're urging Congress to provide:
At least $35 million for the Childhood Cancer STAR Act (a $5 million increase, matching the funding provided in the FY26 House Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill)
$100 million for the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (matching the total funding level provided by Congress in FY26 and the Executive Order signed in September 2025 that doubles the program’s budget)
$51.3 billion for the NIH and $7.9 billion for NCI
$1.5 billion for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-H), which ensures that innovative ideas are quickly developed and implemented
Thank you for ensuring that the voices of children with cancer are heard loud and clear by every Member of Congress this week.