Children’s Cancer Institute begins trial for childhood brain cancer therapy
The trial will use the child’s own immune system for specifically targeting the Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Read more:...
Feb 10, 2023
Understanding How Childhood Brain Tumors Develop
A team of scientists has identified a new cell type implicated in the development of the most common type of malignant childhood brain...
Jan 31, 2023
New drug combination may effectively treat often fatal childhood brain tumor
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and partners become first to treat MYC amplified Medulloblastoma on a...
Jan 17, 2023
New Drug Shows ‘Encouraging’ Outcomes for Pediatric Brain Tumor Treatment
Treatment with tovorafenib led to a 64% overall response rate in patients with recurrent or progressive pediatric low-grade glioma, study...
Jan 12, 2023
Study Identifies Novel Epigenetic Changes in Pediatric Brain Cancer
Investigators have identified previously unknown sets of epigenetic changes in pediatric brain tumors, which could serve as novel ...
Dec 7, 2022
Data Support Whole Brain Irradiation Reduction in Pediatric Cancer Survivors
Results from a pooled case control study indicate that meninges are very radiosensitive in pediatric patients who were treated at prior ...
Nov 29, 2022
McMaster University researchers pinpoint potential treatment for lethal childhood cancer
An enzyme that drives the growth of an often-lethal childhood brain cancer may hold the key to a future treatment, says a McMaster ...
Nov 11, 2022
Changes to chromosomes impact how children’s brain tumours respond to treatment
Every year in the UK, around 55 children are diagnosed with medulloblastoma, and there is a pressing need for new treatments. Now, led...
Nov 8, 2022
Study offers proof of concept for treating pediatric brain tumors with immunotherapy
Now, in a new proof-of-concept study published in the Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, researchers at Children's Hospital of...
Nov 3, 2022
3D genomics reveals targets for aggressive childhood cancers
While some pediatric brain cancers have known genetic causes, many do not. Three-dimensional profiling revealed new disease mechanisms...
Nov 2, 2022

