Breakthrough Enables Prediction of Relapse in Common Childhood Cancer
New research has allowed experts to identify the time, nature, and outcome of pediatric medulloblastoma relapse, allowing physicians to ...
Dec 8, 2020
Breakthrough in childhood brain cancer will save lives
Research by Newcastle University, UK, has revealed that experts can identify the time, nature and outcome of medulloblastoma relapse from...
Nov 18, 2020
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
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
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
Inherited mutation can predispose children to a type of brain tumor
Investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and the German Cancer Research Center...
Apr 3, 2020
Targeting a transporter to treat SHH medulloblastoma
Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have identified a novel target for a type of pediatric brain tumor. Read more:...
Apr 1, 2020
Childhood brain tumor discovery potentially unlocks new treatments
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine made a discovery about a rare form of childhood cancerous brain tumor,...
Feb 13, 2020
Brain surgeons turn to basic science to fight childhood brain cancer
In 2012, a pair of neurosurgery residents traded their scrubs for lab coats in an effort to understand, at the most basic level, what...
May 21, 2019
Tiny molecule has big effect in childhood brain tumor studies
A very small molecule under study is able to kill a childhood brain cancer, and the lead researcher said it may be possible to reduce by...
Nov 8, 2018