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Brain Cancer
St. Jude Finds Young Age May Give Survival Advantage to Children With Certain Brain Tumors
June 10th, 2008
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have shown that children under 3 years old who have a brain tumor called diffuse pontine glioma (DPG) appear to have a better outcome than older children with the same cancer. Results of the study, which appear in the advance online publication of the journal "Cancer," are important because clinicians have long believed that DPG was universally fatal. Moreover, it was assumed that clinicians had simply misdiagnosed the disease in children who responded to treatment and survived. "Our findings show that children under 3 years with DPG can potentially respond better to treatment than older children,"...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-06-10)
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