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Study Offers Clues to Cause of Kids’ Brain Tumors
New research from Washington University School of Medicine is helping scientists better understand common brain tumor.
Insights from a genetic condition that causes brain cancer are helping scientists better understand the most common type of brain tumor in children. In new research, scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a cell growth pathway that is unusually active in pediatric brain tumors known as gliomas. They previously identified the same growth pathway as a critical contributor to brain tumor formation and growth in neurofibromatosis-1 (NF1), an inherited cancer predisposition syndrome. “This suggests that the tools we’ve been developing to diagnose and treat NF1 may also be helpful for sporadic brain tumors,” said senior author David H. Gutmann, MD, PhD, the Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor of …
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