House passes Mikaela Naylon Give Kids A Chance Act for cancer care

A teenage woman who spent her final years advocating for younger folks battling most cancers will probably be without end remembered in historical past, due to a significant invoice handed by the Home of Representatives.

Mikaela Naylon was simply 16 when she died 5 years after being recognized with osteosarcoma, a uncommon type of bone most cancers.

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, who helped lead the landmark laws that grew to become her namesake, stated Mikaela spent a lot of that point preventing to offer fellow kids an opportunity to outlive most cancers.

He informed Fox Information Digital that he thought of childhood most cancers sufferers to be “one of the best advocates” for his or her trigger, calling them his “higher angels.”

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The Home of Representatives remembered Mikaela Naylon on Monday after she died following a five-year battle with osteosarcoma, a uncommon type of bone most cancers. (Naylon household)

“Mikaela was an ideal instance of that,” McCaul stated. ‘She was very sick. She had simply undergone radiation and chemotherapy. She wasn’t feeling effectively, I might inform. However she nonetheless made the trouble to come back to Washington, to go to members’ places of work and advocate for the laws.”

The Mikaela Naylon Give Children A Probability Act is meant to develop kids’s entry to present analysis into most cancers therapies and to spur the event of therapies and options for childhood most cancers.

It reauthorizes funding from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being (NIH) to assist analysis into pediatric ailments by fiscal 12 months 2027, and expands the Meals and Drug Administration’s (FDA) potential to expedite the evaluate of medicine geared toward serving to sure childhood ailments.

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“It is most likely one of the crucial rewarding issues I’ve accomplished, not solely elevating consciousness of childhood most cancers by shaping the [Childhood Cancer Caucus] after which maintain an annual summit, however to have the ability to go laws that leads to saving kids’s lives. I do not suppose there’s something extra essential than that,” McCaul stated.

Rep. Mike McCaul, R-Texas, walks off the ground after the Home of Representatives didn’t elect a brand new Speaker of the Home through the first spherical of voting on the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 17, 2023. (Joe Raedle/Getty Pictures)

His invoice handed the Home of Representatives unanimously on Monday, with each Republicans and Democrats strongly supporting the laws.

Mikaela’s household was available to observe each its passage and the speeches lawmakers made in its favor.

“Nothing will take her place. But it surely did assist fill a void, a void that they’ve now. And that is one thing they’re very pleased with, that her legacy continues by this laws,” stated McCaul, who additionally gave the Naylon household a tour of the U.S. Capitol.

Mikaela’s dad and mom Cassandra and Doug, and her brother Ayden, informed Fox Information Digital that she “confronted every single day with hope, goal and a fierce willpower to make the world a greater place for the youngsters who would come after her.”

The US Capitol, pictured at sundown on January 30, 2025. (Emma Woodhead/Fox Information Digital)

“She believed that every one kids, irrespective of how uncommon their prognosis, deserve entry to essentially the most promising therapies and an actual likelihood at life. This laws displays that mission,” the Naylon household informed Fox Information Digital.

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They thanked McCaul in addition to Reps. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., and Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla., for championing the invoice, in addition to advocacy teams that additionally helped push it ahead.

“Their dedication ensures that Mikaela’s voice, and the voices of so many brave kids like her, will without end be heard within the halls of Congress,” the household stated.