Malignant Brain Tumors In Children Will Soon Be Able To Be Curable

Malignant Brain Tumors In Children Will Soon Be Able To Be Curable.
A advance inquiry has found that a targeted treatment for medulloblastoma - the most non-private malignant brain cancer in children - may one day be able to treat drug-resistant forms of the disease. "Less than 5 percent of patients currently subsist medulloblastoma," said Dr Amar Gajjar, be conducive to author of the study, which was presented Saturday at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago. "Most patients as per usual die 12 to 18 months after the tumor comes back".

Although this scan was designed primarily to assess stand effects, if the drug moves through the pharmaceutical pipeline, it would be the first targeted drug aimed at a signaling pathway. Chemotherapy is the pure treatment now. The drug, known as GDC-0449, interrupts the "sonic hedgehog" pathway, which has been implicated in a bunch of other cancers; it is involved in 20 percent of cases of children with medulloblastoma.