he cancer mortality rate for children has fallen more than 50% since 1975, but it is still the leading cause of disease-related death in kids. David Davies/Press Association/AP

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that the White House says will use artificial intelligence to transform the way scientists fight childhood cancer.

However, the move comes amid cuts to hundreds of millions of dollars in science research grants and proposed cuts to the budget of the nation’s primary agency for cancer research and training – moves that experts say could mean dramatic losses in cancer treatments.

“We’re going to defeat childhood cancer once and for all,” Trump said Tuesday in the Oval Office, accompanied by children who have had cancer. “I’m thrilled to sign a very histor

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