Scientists have discovered a new weapon against an incurable brain tumor found in children.
Researchers led by the University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center and the Chad Carr Pediatric Brain Tumor Center have found for the first time, how one drug may improve the survival rate for a type of childhood brain tumor. Their findings have been published in Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research.
The tumor, known as diffuse midline gliomas (DMG), is a particularly aggressive form of cancer usually found in young adults or children. When this cancer also has a mutation called H3K27M, the treatment becomes even harder.
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