Frustrated with the lack of investment in research and drug development devoted to
pediatric brain tumor gliomas, the Kamens decided to take action and launch their foundation.
Not exact matches
Researchers from Northwestern Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago have revealed new insight into how the most deadly
pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma (DIPG), may develop.
Researchers investigating
pediatric low - grade
gliomas (PLGG), the most common type of
brain tumor in children, have discovered key biological differences in how mutated genes combine with other genes to drive this childhood cancer.
«This is exciting because it's the first animal model of
pediatric high - grade
gliomas, or malignant
brain tumors,» says Maria Castro, Ph.D., senior author of the paper and a professor in the departments of Neurosurgery and Cell and Developmental Biology at U-M.
Screening of several other
pediatric brain tumors revealed that the histone H3 mutations seem exclusive to
pediatric high - grade
gliomas.
Research from the
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in
pediatric brain tumors known as high - grade
gliomas, including
tumors like diffuse intrinsic pontine
glioma pictured in this MRI.
The St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Washington University
Pediatric Cancer Genome Project has identified new mutations in
pediatric brain tumors known as high - grade
gliomas (HGGs), which most often occur in the youngest patients.