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Time to diagnosis for malignant central nervous system tumours does not determine survival
After Dr. Sylvia Cheng treated an 8-year-old girl with a brain tumour, the girl’s parents asked the BC Children’s Hospital researcher and oncologist whether an earlier diagnosis of their daughter’s medulloblastoma, the most common type of childhood brain cancer, would have made a difference.
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Marijuana as medicine for kids with cancer: An emerging field of desperately needed research
At least once or twice a month, Dr. Rod Rassekh gets asked by colleagues at BC Children’s Hospital to meet with a cancer patient and their family so he can advise them on using medical marijuana. Parents want to know how to help their kids manage symptoms from harsh cancer treatments, and sometimes they want…
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Not just a risk: Understanding cancer genes can reveal how early tumours form
Mutations in the Breast Cancer 1 (BRCA1) gene or Breast Cancer 2 (BRCA2) gene are well-known to substantially increase a woman’s risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer. They have also been implicated in the development of cancer in other tissues, including some childhood cancers such as neuroblastoma, brain tumours and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL).
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