brain cancer

Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Are Disease-Free After First-of-Its-Kind Immune-Cell Trial

Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Are Disease-Free After First-of-Its-Kind Immune-Cell Trial

Some diagnoses come with almost no hope attached. Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG, is one of them — a brain cancer so aggressive that most children diagnosed with it don’t survive past two years, and surgery isn’t even an option given where it sits in the brain. So when a small team of…

Scientists Found a Way to Kill the Deadliest Brain Cancer That Has No Cure
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Scientists Found a Way to Kill the Deadliest Brain Cancer That Has No Cure

Brain cancer does not play fair. Among its worst forms, one stands out for its speed, its resistance to treatment, and its ability to rob patients of time. For decades, doctors have had almost nothing new to offer. Surgery, radiation, and a chemotherapy drug that adds only a few extra months have been the standard…