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
Survivors of childhood brain tumors experience lasting cognitive and socioeconomic burdens
Survivors of childhood brain tumors who received radiotherapy and were very young at the time of diagnosis may experience cognitive and...
Jun 24, 2019
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
The unanticipated early origins of childhood brain cancer
Brain tumours are the leading cause of non-accidental death in children in Canada, but little is known about when these tumours form or...
May 16, 2019
Genetic variant linked to increased stroke risk in childhood cancer survivors treated with CRT
A common single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) was associated with increased risk for developing stroke in childhood survivors who...
Apr 2, 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
Study: Proton therapy better than radiation for children's brain tumors
Children with brain tumors had better neurocognitive outcomes with proton therapy treatment compared with X-ray radiation therapy,...
Nov 7, 2018