clinical trials

Impact of New Molecular Understandings on Brain Tumor Clinical Trial Design Performance

Dr. Roger J. Packer The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation was pleased to be a Silver Sponsor for the comprehensive 17th International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Our Neurotransmitter Fall-Winter edition will cover other topics from the other conference. This summary covers a topic from Family Day and Educational Day, held June 11, 2016, related to molecular …

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Angiogenesis Inhibitors – An “Old Frontier” in Cancer Therapy

by Tobey MacDonald, M.D., Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA In 1971, Dr. Judah Folkman, then surgeon-in-chief of Children’s Hospital Boston, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that solid tumors are dependent on “angiogenesis”, the formation of new blood vessels, for survival and growth. He proposed that …

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