A Phase I clinical trial demonstrated that a targeted approach to treating a deadly brain tumor in children called diffuse intrinsic...

In an early-stage clinical trial, the therapy nearly doubled the expected survival time of young patients. Still, experts caution that...

Researchers and pediatric neurosurgeons at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh...

Paediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) in particular are a mostly fatal disease group with a median survival time of less than 18 months...

Canadian researchers have developed an effective new technique for identifying aggressive medulloblastoma—the most common type of...

Exposure to radiation from head or neck CT imaging increased risk for childhood brain tumors , according to results of a nationwide...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have discovered a way to stop tumor growth before it starts for a subtype of...

Research out of Emory University and QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Queensland, Australia, has shown that a potential new...

Scientists at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have identified a key gene that could lead to next-generation treatments for...

Recently, CureSearch for Children’s Cancer, a privately funded organization,  recognized the work of John Prensner, M.D., Ph.D., a...