New data from J. Grill et al illuminate research in medulloblastoma in children

New investigation results, 'Recent development in chemotherapy of paediatric brain tumours,' are detailed in a study published in Current Opinion In Oncology. According to recent research from Villejuif, France, "Chemotherapy has gained a larger importance in the management of brain tumours, especially in children Converging results were presented in 2005 by the German, French and North-American cooperative groups indicating that a subgroup of young children with medulloblastoma (i.e. those with desmoplastic histology) could be cured with chemotherapy only strategies. The usefulness of high-dose chemotherapy followed by stem-cell transplant was shown not only as salvage strategy but...

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