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Race, Ethnicity, and Poverty Linked to Worse Outcomes in Children Treated for High-Risk Neuroblastoma
Children with high-risk neuroblastoma had worse outcomes if they were from certain racial/ethnic groups or were on public rather than private insurance, despite being treated in clinical trials with standardized protocols, according to a study led by investigators from Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center.
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Targeted Drug Combination Shows Unprecedented Activity in Some Highly Aggressive Brain Tumors
Treatment with dabrafenib and trametinib yielded encouraging rate of durable responses in both high-grade and low-grade brain tumors carrying the rare BRAF v600E mutation. Study is first to show benefit of any targeted drugs in glioblastomas – the most aggressive brain tumor.
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New Study Finds Link Between Patient Survival and Changes in Tumor Cell Mass in Brain Cancer
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and MIT have developed a new way to determine whether individual patients will respond to a specific cancer drug or not.
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New Immunotherapy Target Discovered for Malignant Brain Tumors
Scientists say they have discovered a potential new target for immunotherapy of malignant brain tumors, which so far have resisted the ground-breaking cancer treatment based on harnessing the body’s immune system.