GivingTuesday initiative mobilizes the world through giving to unite communities. The Childhood Brain Tumor Foundation uses donations to continue to provide programs, resources to families of children with childhood brain tumors and to fund critical research for childhood brain tumors in search for cures. Your contribution will help CBTF continue to provide programs and fund …
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Maral Adel Fahmideh, PhD; Michael E. Scheurer, PhD, MPH, Baylor College of Medicine Introduction Primary brain tumors are the most common solid tumors in children and the leading cause of cancer mortality in this population. Pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) are heterogeneous in histopathology, molecular features, and prognosis, and they are classified into two major categories including …
Normal brain is made up of several cell types including neurons, the main functional cell of the brain, and glia, which play a supportive role to the neurons. Glia are further subdivided into different types, each type with a different function, including oligodendrocytes which cover the axons of neurons with sheathes of myelin, and astrocytes …
As the care of children with brain tumors evolves, there is recognition that despite advances in surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, there are clear needs to explore other options and to create mechanisms where new therapeutic approaches can be assessed carefully and expeditiously. Over the past 2 decades, multiple clinical trials consortia have been developed …
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 …
LINK TO ARTICLE: Stanford Medicine/Monje Labs/Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Over the last decade, there has been an explosion in the amount of data generated from the DNA and RNA sequencing studies. Essentially, these data inform us about the blueprints of the cancer cell – the instructions it uses to carry out its primary function of cellular proliferation. However, translating these findings into new therapies …
Peggy Kulm, RN, MA and Deb Shade, RN , CPON This is the first of two planned articles by members of the CureSearch web team to introduce families and friends of children with brain tumors to an internet site that is designed specifically for patients, parents and families of children with cancer. The CureSearch.org team …
