St. Jude using adult cancer drugs to double-team childhood brain tumors

Children with an aggressive form of the most common childhood brain tumor, medulloblastoma, face a tough prognosis. Effective treatments are limited, and long-term survival is poor. But today there is new hope thanks to a discovery from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital involving a pair of drugs already being used to treat adults with cancer.

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