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Researchers lend expertise to improve treatment for childhood brain cancers

NIBIB in the News
March 28, 2025

Brain cancer is the second most common cancer in children after leukemia, and it is also the deadliest, due to the fact that brain tumors are diverse, resistant to treatments and often hard to access surgically. A collaborative team of researchers at several institutions have developed a new way to profile brain cancers in children, paving the way for improved diagnostics and treatments. Source: UTSA Today