New hope for diagnosis and treatment of intractable paediatric brain tumours

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 04:56 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have discovered oncogenes capable of driving growth of normal human brain stem cells in a highly malignant paediatric brain tumour. The research, published by Cell Press in the December issue of the journal Cancer Cell, has significant implications for clinical management of aggressive paediatric brain tumours that are notorious for their dismal prognosis...

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