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Why therapy for brain cancer in kids often fails
The Canadian Press
Helen Branswell
Sat Feb 18 2012
TORONTO When a devastating form of brain cancer in kids spreads ? and it too often does ? treatments are life-changing and often ineffective. A new study is shedding light on why.
The work, led by a scientist at Toronto?s Hospital for Sick Children, has found that in medulloblastoma, the small tumours that spread to other parts of the brain and spine aren?t genetically like the main tumour from which they came. So treatments that target the main tumour often fail to shut down the secondary cancers, called metastases...
Why therapy for brain cancer in kids often fails
The Canadian Press
Helen Branswell
Sat Feb 18 2012
TORONTO When a devastating form of brain cancer in kids spreads ? and it too often does ? treatments are life-changing and often ineffective. A new study is shedding light on why.
The work, led by a scientist at Toronto?s Hospital for Sick Children, has found that in medulloblastoma, the small tumours that spread to other parts of the brain and spine aren?t genetically like the main tumour from which they came. So treatments that target the main tumour often fail to shut down the secondary cancers, called metastases...