WASHINGTON — In an Oval Office meeting where he was joined by young cancer survivors, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to allocate $50 million for pediatric cancer research. The funding is intended to improve data collection on childhood cancers and to use artificial intelligence to leverage that data for more personalized treatments.

"We're doing a lot for you, and you're all going to be better really soon," Trump told a half dozen children who had just recounted their stories of surviving leukemia, bone and brain cancers.

The executive order directs the Make America Health Again Commission to work with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to use AI for pediatric cancer research that could lead to improved diagnoses, better treatments and cures

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