Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers

(NIH/National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS)) Researchers have devised a new, promising plan of attack against deadly childhood brain cancers called diffuse midline gliomas (DMG). NCATS and Stanford University scientists and their colleagues showed that combining two drugs killed DMG patient cells grown in the laboratory and in animal models. The drugs countered the effects of a genetic mutation that causes the diseases. Their studies also uncovered an unrecognized vulnerability in the cancer cells that scientists may be able to exploit.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news