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August 19, 2025 6 mins
Dr. Julie R. Gralow of ASCO discusses importance of cancer research funding on Conversations LIVE with host Cyrus Webb. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Conversations Live. I'm your
host service Well SOO glad you guys could join us
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to join its online worldwide VRA podcast that I heard
radio on Amazon Music. Glad you all could be with
us as well. This is part of our music and
you seg with here at WYAD. And you probably have

(00:21):
heard a lot of the news about the budget cuts
that are proposed for the fiscal year twenty twenty six,
but you may not realize that they call for deep
cuts to the National Institute of Health or in Nice state,
as well as the National Cancer Institute that or NCI.
Those are two agencies that support a broad range of
scientific and clinical research. Here to talk to us more
about the proposed cuts, but also the impact for patients

(00:44):
and providers. We're excited to welcome doctor Julie Graylow to
our broadcast today. Doctor Graylow is the chief Medical Officer
and Executive vice President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
Doctor gray Loow, thank you again for stopping by. Really
appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Well, thanks for having me and thanks for discussing this
important topic.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, it is an important topic that the gray level audience,
not only here in Mississippi but also those that are
joining us online. What types of cancer research are typically
supported by the federal funding.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Well, government funding or federal funding really is the backbone
of cancer research. It supports a lot of what we
call basic science research that the basic relays the groundwork
for our future breakthroughs. So the questions sometimes done in
the lab as to what is cancer, what's different about
this cancer, how is it evading the immune system, and

(01:33):
what's going to work to stop it. It also funds
research on smaller populations, rare types of cancer or pediatric
cancer where there's not as much commercial viability to attract
private investments. And we found a large clinical trials network
through the National Cancer Institute that offers clinical trials opportunities

(01:58):
to our patients, and these trials that are investigating what
the new standard of care should be, what's the next
big breakthrough.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
So the grilly you mentioned a good point. I think
most of our audience may have heard about the National
Cancer Institute. They may not have heard of the National
Institutes of Health. So what is the role of those
two agencies and driving medical innovation.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
Well, the National Cancer Institute is when one of many
of what we call the National Institutes of Health, so
it falls under the National Institutes of Health, and a
lot of the kind of gramps that are supported by
the NIH and the NCI are for this foundational research

(02:41):
that then leads to ideas, further exploration, the developments of
new therapies, new treatments, et cetera.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
So for our audience out there, I mean they if
they're hearing about these reposed budget cuts especially they can
impact these two agencies. What can this funding reduction do
and patients and the providers they have, Well.

Speaker 2 (03:02):
It's going to slow down the development of new treatments,
new therapies. We've had a lot of success in improving
you know, mortality deaths due to breast cancer, but we
still sadly have about six hundred thousand deaths due to
cancer in this country each year. So we need new treatments,

(03:24):
new therapies. We will also have a brain drain that
those who are the young, early career scientists and researchers
and clinicians who are involved in cancer are already getting
discouraged over the past several months, worried about whether they're

(03:44):
going to be able to have viable careers anymore. Some
are leaving the country and some are leaving the field
of cancer entirely because of this uncertainty as to whether
it's going to be a viable career, whether they're going
to be able to have the funding to support the research.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
So as we continue to watch to see what happens,
are there any particular areas that's great load that you're
most interested in being affected by these cuts?

Speaker 2 (04:09):
Well, you know, there are many types of cancers where
we've had great successes, but we have many other kinds
of cancers that we don't understand. Well, we're now in
an ara what we call personalized cancer treatment, or instead
of just saying you have breast cancer, you have pan
gravid cancer, you have lung cancer, we're learning there are many,

(04:32):
many different subtypes of each of those kinds of cancers.
This is the kind of research where we're subsetting common cancers,
but we're now taking parts that might only be ten
percent of all lung cancer has this mutation that might
respond to this therapy. Those are the kinds of discoveries
that we will not have the funding for anymore, and

(04:53):
that's really critical in getting more cures, more successes, more survivors.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
Well, we're really excited that we could have you here,
doctor Grailo, to help our audience better understand the impact
of these budget cuts, especially when it comes to these
agencies that do provide us a great information. Again, everyone,
Doctor Julie Grailow has been our guest Chief Medical Officer
and Executive Vice President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology,
Doctor Grailow. Where can on audience go to find out more, Well.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
On our website you can find out more at ASCO
dot org. That's oorg slash save Research you'll find more information.
And we've urged all your listeners to contact your lawmakers
to provide robust cancer research funding and the disc LAAR
twenty twenty six budget, and that budget has to be

(05:42):
done by the end of September, so timing is critical.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
We'll make sure that we linked it up as well.
Doctor Graillow, thank you so much for the great work
that you all are doing, and thank you again for
spending some time with us. Really appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (05:52):
Thanks for spreading the words.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Glad to do it, and we think your audience for
tuning in to another great segment of Conversations Live again
part of music you segment here a wyad until next time,
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