Experimental treatment borrowed from blood cancer shows promise for pediatric brain tumors
In an early-stage clinical trial, the therapy nearly doubled the expected survival time of young patients. Still, experts caution that...
Mar 24
Classifying childhood brain cancers by immune response may improve diagnostics and treatments
Researchers and pediatric neurosurgeons at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh...
Mar 21
New therapeutic approach shows promise for pediatric high-grade gliomas
Paediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) in particular are a mostly fatal disease group with a median survival time of less than 18 months...
Mar 18
New test identifies high-risk childhood brain tumours, improving treatment decisions
Canadian researchers have developed an effective new technique for identifying aggressive medulloblastoma—the most common type of...
Mar 13
Exposure to CT radiation increases risk for childhood brain tumors
Exposure to radiation from head or neck CT imaging increased risk for childhood brain tumors , according to results of a nationwide...
Feb 11
Research discovery halts childhood brain tumor before it forms
Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have discovered a way to stop tumor growth before it starts for a subtype of...
Feb 7
Potential new therapy for childhood brain cancer could heal treatment-resistant tumors
Research out of Emory University and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Queensland, Australia, has shown that a potential new...
Feb 5
Targeting potassium channel shows promise for treating brain tumors in children
Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have identified a key gene that could lead to next-generation treatments for...
Jan 28
Researchers tackle rare, aggressive tumors in children
Recently, CureSearch for Children’s Cancer, a privately funded organization, recognized the work of John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D., a...
Jan 27
Cutting-edge immunotherapy offers hope for relapsed brain tumors
Indoximod works to reverse the mechanisms that cancer tumors use to hide from the immune system . The chemotherapy damages the tumor,...
Jan 10