WASHINGTON — Members of Congress from both parties are sounding the alarm about the National Cancer Institute’s decision to halt funding for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium .

That’s a network of academic centers and children’s hospitals, including New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, that has worked for more than a quarter century to advance new treatments for brain cancer in children.

The consortium confirmed to Spectrum News that it would not receive federal funding beyond March next year and will dissolve.

Gaylon Hayden heads Book for Hope , a Kentucky nonprofit that financially supports the families of children battling cancer.

“Any time the funding stops for brain cancer … for children, that’s an alarm bell that goes off in my head, just because of the fac

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