Clues to rare childhood brain tumor uncovered
New research from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
– Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project (PCGP) shows that mutations linked to a rare, lethal childhood tumor of the
brainstem play a unique role in other aggressive pediatric brain tumors. The findings offer important insight into a poorly understood tumor that kills more than 90 percent of patients within two years.
New drug target for childhood eye tumor
New findings from the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Washington University Pediatric Cancer Genome Project have helped identify the mechanism that makes the childhood eye tumor retinoblastoma so aggressive.