Ichiro Nakano, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Instructor / Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA 2008 Despite the dramatic improvements in the outcome of other childhood cancers in the last decades, brain tumors remain the leading cause of death in the pediatric oncology. Malignant brain tumors are composed …
Michael Cooper Funded 2008 Pilocytic astrocytoma is commonly viewed as a benign lesion with an excellent 10-year survival rate. However, disease onset is most prevalent in the first two decades of life, current therapeutic modalities are often limited by tumor location and size and late recurrences are not uncommon. Thus, as many children are left …
The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation is proud to announce year 2001 funding of a promising research study entitled, “Gene Expression Analysis of Medulloblastoma” submitted by Dr. Tobey MacDonald of Children’s National Medical Center. The initial results of this study have been published in the October issues of the leading scientific journals, Nature Genetics. In addition, …