The therapy is a drug called Indoximod that blocks an enzyme called indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase or IDO for short. Its role was first...

Ependymoma refers to a heterogeneous group of cancers that can occur at any age and is one of the most common types of brain cancer in...

Children with an extremely deadly form of brain cancer might benefit from a new treatment that aims to direct an immune response against...

A Phase 1 clinical trial leveraging the re-engineered polio virus is now open for enrollment to children 12 years and older at the...

Researchers investigating pediatric low-grade gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of brain tumor in children, have discovered key...

For many of us, the longest relationship that we have in life is with our sibling. Whether you are the best of friends or the worst of...

Doctors at Sick Kids have developed tests to analyze the molecular makeup of individual brain tumours, leading to the possibility of...

A BREAST cancer drug could be the key to treating the most common form of childhood brain tumour, research has found. Read more:...

Neuroscientists have uncovered the genetic basis for why many long-term survivors of childhood cancer develop meningiomas, the most...

Scientists have identified new genetic alterations and mechanisms that lead to very aggressive types of childhood brain cancer. Their...