A clinical trial showed CAR-T cell therapy may shrink aggressive brain and spinal cord tumours in young patients.

A young girl battling cancer that we reported on a year ago has lost her battle.Natalie Barajas passed away on Wednesday from ...

The trial, among the first successes against solid tumours for engineered immune cells known as CAR-T cells - offers hope for ...

Diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas, or DIPG, shackle themselves so insidiously around a young person’s brainstem that no chemo or scalpel can wrest them out. Most children didn’t survive a year.

DIPG, which stands for diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, is considered a universally fatal disease. It can wreak its havoc quickly, and the five-year survival rate is below 1%. “These are ...

The Lakeland Athletic Complex in the 9600 block of Memphis-Arlington Road may be renamed the Brody Townsend Athletic Complex ...

The findings offer hope for children with a group of deadly brain and spinal cord tumors, including a cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. The immune-cell therapy shrank ...

Diffuse midline gliomas, including diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs), are aggressive brain tumors primarily affecting ...

Our current research focus is on pediatric high grade glioma (pHGG) driven by histone mutations including H3G34R mutations observed hemispheric tumors and H3K27M mutations seen in diffuse intrinsic ...

including a cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG. The findings will be published online Nov. 13 in Nature. In October, this therapy received a regenerative medicine advanced ...