Trump signs an executive decree using AI for pediatric cancer

President Donald Trump signed a decree on Tuesday to improve the means to identify and treat pediatric cancers using artificial intelligence.

More specifically, the executive decree requests the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) commission to work with the White House science and policy office to use AI on how to use it to diagnose and treat childhood cancers and identify new remedies. The secretary of health and social services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., launches the Maha commission.

The president was joined at the Oval office by Kennedy, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Director of the National Institutes of Health Jay Bhattacharya and others.

President Donald Trump has signed a decree to improve the means to identify and treat pediatric cancers using artificial intelligence. (Bonnie Cash / Upi / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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The president signed the order surrounded by children, many of whom have survived the cancer themselves.

The president said that by signing the order, the United States adds an additional $ 50 million to the initiative of childhood cancer data.

“I also plan that the federal government fully uses artificial intelligence towards research on pediatric cancer to count,” said Trump. “It’s quite incredible what’s going on.”

The president added: “I just want to say that we are going to defeat infant cancer once and for all.”

Trump’s initiative in his first mandate by establishing the initiative of childhood cancer data laid the basis for using AI to administer clinical research and patient care to combat pediatric cancers in the United States, according to the White House.

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The effort has collected a multitude of information over the years, including monitoring molecular characteristics and genetic information on childhood cancers that have already been organized in a “vast” database.

“Take advantage of this data infrastructure, researchers will deploy artificial intelligence to improve clinical trials, refine diagnostics, adjusted treatments, unlock healing and strengthen Castillo prevention strategies, director of the White House Scientific and Technological Policy Office, told journalists on Tuesday.

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The effort has collected a multitude of information over the years, including monitoring molecular characteristics and genetic information on childhood cancers that have already been organized in a “vast” database. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

The decree will also strengthen the financing of the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative, which is accommodated within the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

“This is an investment of $ 50 million in the immediate future that we are announcing today. But there will be more investments to come while we are starting to implement this” decree, said a White House official to journalists.

Consequently, the decree will also be a call for financing for research proposals linked to the application of AI in childhood cancers, said the manager.

“This is just a huge type of application field where we have existing data sets, many existing work that has been carried out in the past six years in this field,” said a White House official. “And this is something that is mature both for scientific exploration and the direct impact on the lives of these children.”

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Meanwhile, Trump’s administration’s budget demand calls for reducing funding by $ 7.2 billion to $ 4.5 billion for the National Cancer Institute within the National Institutes of Health for the 2026 fiscal year.

However, the White House rejected the characterizations that the administration sought to reduce funding for cancer research, and said the budget for the next financial year is “still underway”.

Government funding should expire at midnight – if not a funding period will trigger a government closure.

Pediatric cancer is the main cause of death by illness after early childhood in children, according to the National Cancer Institute. However, survival rates are increasing.

The five -year survival rate for children from zero to 19 years is currently more than 83%, against the rates of the 1970s of 58% for children aged 14 and under and 68% for children aged 15 to 19, according to the agency.