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rath
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 Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:33 pm Post subject: Brain tumour discovery |
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13 August, 2008.
AUSTRALIAN researchers have found the origins of a fatal brain tumour in children, paving the way for life-saving drugs.
Medulloblastomas are the second most common cancer in Australian children and almost half of the one in 300,000 children diagnosed with the cancer die every year.
But in a world first, a team of Australian and American scientists have found the tumours can originate from two types of cell: stem cells and neurons.
"This is the first time someone has narrowed down exactly which cells it comes from, and if we're going to start treating a tumour effectively you have to know exactly where it comes from to begin with," Professor Brandon Wainwright from the Institute for Molecular Bioscience at the University of Queensland said.
The discovery, published in the journal Cancer Cell, gives scientists a specific target.
"Although current treatment is effectively successful in half of cases, there is often substantial damage to the brain from treatments such as chemotherapy and radiotherapy as well," Professor Wainwright said.
"If we're ever going to tackle these childhood brain cancers, we need to be more targeted in our approach."
Medulloblastomas mostly affect children under 10. |
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| Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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Awesome. Ive never really liked the idea of mass amounts of radiation pumping through someones body.....
But what about other cancers starting elswhere? we should probably be looking for those origins too. |
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| Bear23 wrote: |
Awesome.
But what about other cancers starting elswhere? we should probably be looking for those origins too. |
Im sure someone somewhere is working on it Bear.
I just hope they come up with something soon. |
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