A Michigan kindergartner’s family is relying on experimental treatments and research courtesy of the National Institutes of Health to fight his extremely rare form of cancer — and that treatment could be up in the air amid cuts from tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force, CNN reported on Tuesday.
In 2022, Aly Vela brought her son Cailen in for a routine checkup. What was initially thought to be an ear infection turned out to be a highly dangerous, rare, and poorly understood cancer called embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.
‘Devastating’: DOGE cuts reportedly put cancer-stricken kindergartner’s life at risk
