Highly effective tumor detection strategy for common childhood brain tumors
A team of scientists have developed a way to more accurately both detect and monitor a common type of pediatric brain cancer, setting...
Oct 22, 2020
Pediatric cancers share stalled gene-managing enzyme
A wildly out-of-place protein leads to haywire cells in a particularly troublesome type of rare early childhood cancer, according to...
Oct 21, 2020
Drugs against alpha-ketoglutarate may combat deadly childhood brain tumor
NIH funded pre-clinical study highlights intricate links between brain tumors and cancer cell metabolism. Read more:...
Aug 24, 2020
UM researchers find new targets for deadly children’s brain tumour
After discovering how a specific gene fuels a deadly form of children’s brain tumour, University of Manitoba researchers have...
Jul 21, 2020
New targets for childhood brain tumors identified
A research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates that the growth of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) brain...
May 4, 2020
New advances toward safely targeting immune cells to pediatric brain tumors
Stanford scientists have taken important steps toward figuring out how to use immune therapy for a group of severe pediatric brain tumors...
May 1, 2020
A promising new treatment for recurrent pediatric brain cancer
Two pediatric brain cancers that are challenging to treat if they recur, medulloblastoma and ependymoma, are the target of a clinical...
Apr 30, 2020
Researchers Uncover Racial Disparities in Brain Cancer Outcomes
Black and Hispanic pediatric patients with brain cancer experienced worse outcomes than their white counterparts, revealing racial...
Mar 16, 2020
Two-Drug Combo Shows Promise in Treating Childhood Brain Cancers
Researchers have tested a new drug combination that shows promise for the treatment of several types of childhood brain cancers known as...
Nov 25, 2019
Lithium can reverse radiation damage after brain tumor treatment
Children who have received radiotherapy for a brain tumour can develop cognitive problems later in life. In their studies on mice,...
Nov 14, 2019