Study picks out children with incurable brain cancer who could benefit from adult therapy

(Institute of Cancer Research) Children with incurable brain tumors could benefit from potentially life-extending treatment if genetic testing was used to personalize therapy as it is in many adults, major new research reports.Scientists analyzed the DNA of children taking an adult cancer drug on a clinical trial deemed to have 'failed,' and found that many with particular genetic traits had actually responded well to treatment.Some of these children survived more than a year longer than others on the trial.
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