Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center have identified a widely used thyroid hormone that may significantly improve treatment outcomes for medulloblastoma, the most common malignant brain tumor in children. The study found ...
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A drug widely used to combat intestinal worms has shown promise in treating brain tumors, with scientists calling for more trials to confirm it works in humans. A systematic review published in the British Journal of Clinical ...
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For most children diagnosed with medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor, survival rates are encouraging. But for a subset, remission is not the end of the story. Roughly 30% of patients will see ...
May 26, 2026
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A team at Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah (the U) has uncovered a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism by which cells send signals to one another—an insight that could help researchers better understand ...
May 12, 2026
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Efforts to identify and evaluate next-generation therapeutics for pediatric brain tumors are easily stymied by the quality and availability of laboratory models for research. To address this issue, scientists at St. Jude ...
Apr 15, 2026
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Biopsy-derived organoids, accurate models of disease, are used to search for new drugs. Now, results obtained by a study led by the University of Trento in collaboration with Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital in Rome may pave ...
Mar 30, 2026
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Research uncovering the origin of pineoblastoma, a rare pediatric brain tumor, has also revealed a dependency across multiple brain tumor types that share a similar molecular program. Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research ...
Mar 5, 2026
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A major study by UCL and Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori in Milan (INT) researchers has for the first time shown in detail how far children's cancer has spread at diagnosis in a way that can be compared between ...
Feb 9, 2026
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The malignant pediatric brain tumor medulloblastoma is driven by proteins deep within the cancer cells, for which there are often no effective drugs available. Researchers at Uppsala University have identified a new genetic ...
Nov 10, 2025
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By analyzing data from three clinical trials treating children with the brain tumor medulloblastoma, scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have designed an approach to safely reduce therapy, thereby lowering ...
Nov 5, 2025
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