New strategy likely to speed drug development for rare cancers

Thursday, September 15, 2011 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have identified promising new therapies for ependymoma, a rare tumor with few treatment options. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators led the effort, which used a new, faster drug development system that combines the latest drug screening technology with the first accurate animal model of the tumor.

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