Push to understand basis of childhood brain tumors leads to a new treatment target

Monday, May 17, 2010 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

The most comprehensive analysis yet of the genetic imbalances at the heart of childhood brain tumors known as high-grade gliomas (HGGs) identified a cancer gene that is unusually active in some tumors and is now the focus of a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital clinical trial.

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