Congress allocated additional money for "Trevor's Law” in fiscal years 2020 and 2021, bringing the total to $4.5 million.
The office of Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said she is seeking a funding increase for fiscal year 2022.
The CDC's "cancer cluster guidelines" page also acknowledges the constraints of the past year in recruiting resources to help in the effort.
In 2017, her daughter, Taylor, then 16, was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer, which is less common in children.
About 1,000 suspected cancer clusters are reported to state health departments each year, according to the American Cancer Society.
But pockets of higher rates of cancer have been reported in communities in Houston; Huntersville, North Carolina; and Wilmington, Massachusetts.
Her daughter's cancer, which was in remission in 2019, has since returned and spread to her lymph nodes and chest. »
