Edison High student’s senior project: Writing a book on what it’s like to be a cancer sibling http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-me-butterfly-sisters-20170512-story.html
New Stanford research published in Cancer Cell suggests two potential drug targets for a terrible pediatric brain tumor, diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma. The findings add to a growing body of work from around the world that illuminates how DIPG cells function and suggests many ways their proliferation could be stopped http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2017/04/24/moving-toward-multi-pronged-treatment-for-the-worst-childhood-brain-tumor/
In precision medicine era legacy gifts of patient brain tissue reveal disease mechanisms and new therapeutic approaches. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-tackle-lethal-childhood-brain-cancer/