{"id":3155,"date":"2025-05-14T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/after-nih-staffing-cuts-cancer-patient-in-clinical-trial-worries-she-may-lose-crucial-time\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T15:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:10:30","slug":"after-nih-staffing-cuts-cancer-patient-in-clinical-trial-worries-she-may-lose-crucial-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/after-nih-staffing-cuts-cancer-patient-in-clinical-trial-worries-she-may-lose-crucial-time\/","title":{"rendered":"After NIH staffing cuts, cancer patient in clinical trial worries she may lose crucial time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/action-bar\/instances\/cmamver1r002h27m4eqa90z4t@published\" data-label-id-prefix=\"action-bar-start-of-article\" class=\"action-bar\" 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She thought the research would allow her to receive an experimental immunotherapy \u2013 but she now faces an excruciating wait and an equally excruciating choice.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00023b6m5n79cfym@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            First, her tumor must grow to at least 1 centimeter in size in order to receive treatment, she said. But even after she meets that criteria, an abrupt reduction in the NIH workforce means her treatment will take much longer to develop than initially expected. She\u2019s worried that that extra time may make a huge difference in her health.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00033b6mq2lu3ktf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The Trump administration has been conducting a review of funding and a restructuring of the US Department of Health and Human Services, resulting in massive waves of job cuts across federal health agencies under HHS, including the NIH, the nation\u2019s medical research agency.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmamvp86w000x3b6mop8721e2@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cma705kii003l26nya04p4ud4@published\" class=\"image-elevate portrait image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"Kelly Spill- 33- with her husband and their two children (second option).jpeg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"1.3333333333333333\" data-original-height=\"2048\" data-original-width=\"1536\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/kelly-spill-33-with-her-husband-and-their-two-children-second-option.jpeg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">Kelly Spill, 33, with her husband and their two children.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Courtesy Kelly Spill<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Immunotherapy helps certain cancer patients avoid surgery: \u2018We hope this is the future\u2019<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00043b6mt9t4weqt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Part of the HHS transformation involves decreasing the NIH workforce by about 1,200 \u201cby centralizing procurement, human resources, and communications across its 27 institutes and centers,\u201d according to the Trump administration. The administration announced in late March that the HHS restructuring would save taxpayers $1.8 billion per year through an overall reduction of about 10,000 full-time employees.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00053b6mo4yc4x6y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Phelps said that some of the scientists working on her NIH trial were among the cuts.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00063b6mvcmgz3qe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Phelps was diagnosed with stage IV colorectal cancer in 2020, at age 38. She was nearly eight months pregnant at the time and originally thought her symptoms \u2013 abdominal pain, irregular bowel movements and mucus in her stool \u2013 were probably due to pregnancy or hemorrhoids. But as her symptoms worsened, she had a colonoscopy that found a tumor in her rectum. Further testing confirmed that it was cancer and that it had spread to her liver.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00073b6mpyqxfd90@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Phelps has had surgery to remove the initial tumor, radiation therapy, three liver surgeries and 48 rounds of chemotherapy. Yet the cancer has continued to spread, she said, which is why she has been eager to try immunotherapy through the NIH trial \u2013 and is worried about the wait.    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder subheader-elevate\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cmamwglqz00013b6m7lxyjrf1@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"trial-delay-could-cost-them-their-life\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">        Trial delay \u2018could cost them their life\u2019<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00083b6mfiqcsvxq@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Immunotherapy is a form of cancer treatment that harnesses a person\u2019s own immune cells to target and fight the disease. The NIH trial specifically involves a T-cell receptor-based therapy in which Phelps\u2019 immune cells were collected through a blood draw, she said. Once her tumor grows to meet the criteria, the cells will be engineered to target her cancer, she said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamvnpmi000u3b6mxxhtwy0u@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            But the time it may take to engineer the cells for that next step has expanded from four to eight weeks because there are not as many researchers working on the trial as before the NIH staff cuts, Phelps said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt00093b6m6spectc1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cSo here\u2019s the tricky part: Should I continue staying off chemo and hope a tumor grows to meet the 1-centimeter threshold, or give up on clinical trials for now?\u201d Phelps said. Giving up on the trials would mean a return to traditional chemotherapy and radiation to treat her cancer.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000a3b6mermfhex9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            She was told that the NIH team will work to engineer her cells at a faster rate than others in the trial so it won\u2019t take eight weeks, but the process will still take weeks.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000b3b6m9k85eajl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Overall, \u201cgoing from four to eight weeks is a huge deal for people with metastatic cancer,\u201d Phelps said, adding that it could lead to further complications or even be life-threatening.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000c3b6m7xvug75m@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cJust to give you a personal example, at the end of March, my scan showed I had disease that was stable, and my blood work showed that my tumor antigens were coming down. It was at a number of 43 for something called a CEA,\u201d Phelps said. This carcinoembryonic antigen test measures levels of the CEA protein in the blood, as certain cancers like colorectal may cause high levels.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000d3b6m0clwc5ti@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cOne month later, my disease had spread to my bones, all of my lymph nodes, and my CEA marker was 203. That\u2019s in one month, in four weeks,\u201d she said. \u201cFor some patients, it might not be a huge deal. For other patients, like me, it is, and it could cost them their life.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000e3b6mjp7k9a9e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            The reductions in NIH funding and staff are happening at a time when colorectal cancer cases have been rising among younger adults. A report released in 2023 by the American Cancer Society said that the proportion of colorectal cancer cases among adults younger than 55 increased from 11% in 1995 to 20% in 2019.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000f3b6mpi24bdi4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThe rates of cancer amongst people younger than 50 are on the rise, and they tend to be aggressive and later-stage cancers,\u201d Phelps said. \u201cSo it makes zero sense, if you care about keeping America healthy, to reduce your medical research at a time when you have cancer rates rising in your younger population that are the ones working and driving the economy.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000g3b6m33czlp5y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Phelps added that if she could wave a magic wand, she would wish for \u201call the cancer research to be restored to where it was before this administration started.\u201d    <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"subheader inline-placeholder subheader-elevate\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/subheader\/instances\/cmamvqccz000z3b6mir2qcuyy@published\" data-component-name=\"subheader\" id=\"federal-health-overhaul\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">        Federal health overhaul<\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000i3b6md9saddql@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            HHS \u201cremains committed\u201d to advancing cancer research, spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in an email.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000j3b6m5go55dhx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cHHS deeply values cancer research and remains committed to advancing life-saving scientific studies that improve patient care and outcomes to Make America Healthy Again,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000k3b6menfvemq1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            When plans for the restructuring of HHS were announced in late March, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. described them as an effort to allow the department to do more at a lower cost to taxpayers.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000l3b6m8e6zp69d@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cThis overhaul will be a win-win for taxpayers and for those that HHS serves,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000m3b6mklprr5s6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            On Wednesday, Kennedy will face senators\u2019 questions in a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing about President Donald Trump\u2019s proposed budget for HHS for fiscal year 2026.    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/related-content\/instances\/cmamvrcvq00143b6m40gdrpd6@published\" data-component-name=\"related-content\" class=\"related-content-elevate related-content--article\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n<header class=\"related-content__title related-content__title-text\" data-editable=\"content.title\">Related article<\/header>\n<section class=\"related-content__body\">\n<div class=\"related-content__image image__related-content\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cmalv93cu000i28p5f08dcoab@published\" class=\"image-elevate image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"2025-03-22T003511Z_1348048887_RC2ZHDA6F2WD_RTRMADP_3_USA-TRUMP-DEMOCRATS.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--eq-large&quot;: 660}\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2025-03-22t003511z-1348048887-rc2zhda6f2wd-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-democrats.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{&quot;image--eq-extra-small&quot;: 115, &quot;image--eq-small&quot;: 300, &quot;image--show-credits&quot;: 525}\">           <\/div>\n<div class=\"image__metadata-container media__metadata-container\">\n<div class=\"image__metadata media__metadata\">\n<div class=\"image__caption attribution\">    <span data-editable=\"metaCaption\" class=\"inline-placeholder\">&#8220;Trump\u2019s war on science is not making America healthy again. It is making Americans and people throughout the world sicker,&#8221; Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a statement.<\/span>  <\/div><figcaption class=\"image__credit\">Kevin Mohatt\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"related-content__headline\">        <span class=\"related-content__headline-text\" data-editable=\"content.headline\">Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding through March, Senate committee minority report says<\/span>      <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000o3b6moa5iuu69@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            A new Senate HELP Committee minority staff report, released Tuesday and authored by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, found that the Trump administration cut $2.7 billion in NIH research funding in the first three months of this year \u2013 including a 31% reduction in cancer research funding from January through March compared with the same timeframe last year.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamvii3n00003b6mby08zt8y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            In a post on X in response, HHS called Sanders\u2019 report \u201cunequivocally false\u201d and \u201ca politically motivated distortion that undermines the thousands of dedicated public health professionals across HHS, who remain steadfast in their commitment to delivering results for the American people.\u201d The post added that HHS is \u201cstreamlining programs, eliminating redundancies, and \u2013 above all else \u2013 prioritizing gold standard science.\u201d    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000p3b6mvnjrgt0w@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            It\u2019s estimated that at least 1 in 5 people with cancer in the US participate in some form of medical research.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000q3b6mykcm4u4n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cClinical trials are a key part of delivery of care to patients. At a large academic center, such as all the large cancer centers, clinical trials are deeply ingrained into patient care \u2013 and without clinical trials, advances in delivery of care to patients will not be made. It\u2019s only through clinical trials that high-quality data about new treatments and cures can be developed,\u201d said Dr. Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, who has been following the changes at the NIH.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmamviojt000r3b6mc8jr1b48@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            \u201cI can also say that terminating multiyear research projects midway leads to a lot of waste of taxpayers\u2019 dollars, because there has already been substantial investment in a project,\u201d he said. \u201cSo if you end a study when it\u2019s halfway done or three-quarters of the way done, then there\u2019s no benefit to either science or to patients after there has already been substantial investment.\u201d    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cancer New in medicine Federal agencies See all topics Facebook Tweet Email Link Link Copied!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthyretirementnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}