Brain-cancer articles
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New targeted treatment approved for children with brain cancer
The drugs improve children’s response rate to treatment and survival time without the disease getting worse.
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‘Kinder’ treatment for childhood brain cancer to be offered by NHS in England
Dabrafenib with trametinib can halt growth of some tumours for more than three times as long as standard chemotherapy, study showsThe NHS is to offer children with brain tumours in England a groundbreaking new targeted drug therapy to tackle the disease – a development charities are hailing as the biggest breakthrough in decades.Gliomas are the most common type of brain cancer in children but experts say the standard treatment of chemotherapy can be brutal and gruelling, and also carries the...
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As more youngsters take to vaping, they risk lung and brain damage and even cancer
Increasingly, teenagers and children are experimenting with vaping ‘out of curiosity’ and from being drawn by ads and the variety of flavours.