JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KFVS) - Cancer research funding is on the chopping block as the federal government makes budget cuts.

Like hundreds of thousands of women around the country, Natasha Parker was diagnosed with breast cancer in December 2022. But that wasn’t all, Parker had triple-negative breast cancer.

“The first thing you look up when you look up triple negative is it’s aggressive, it’s rare, outcomes aren’t very good, and so you go into this thinking, ‘I have no hope, I got the worst kind, how can this happen,’” Parker said.

Dr. Ashley Wilburs is a breast surgical oncologist with the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia. As she explains, researchers recently made a breakthrough in treating triple-negative breast cancer by using immunotherapy.

“Without the people who are pu

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