The United States' standing as an important place for cancer research is under threat.

As the New York Times reports, the Trump administration has dramatically slashed funding to US-based cancer research, endangering the country's overall leading position in science research — not to mention the fates of cancer patients across the country.

"We are great in science," Harold Varmus, former director of the National Institute of Health (NIH) and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, told the NYT. "Why would we want to destroy one of our greatest assets?"

In the first three months of his second term, Trump has slashed $2.7 billion from the NIH's budget. Federal cancer research, in particular, has seen drastic reductions, which critics say will hamper any advancement in finding effective treatment

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