Study Explores Debilitating Childhood Brain Cancer Treatment Options
A recent study by the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the School of Medicine at the Washington University in St. Louis proposes that young patients with an average risk medulloblastoma can, after a six-week radiation treatment regimen, undergo a radiation boost to a smaller area of the brain. Medulloblastoma is a pediatric brain cancer that usually affects the spine and/or brain and can spread through a patient’s spinal fluid. The standard of care for this type of cancer includes radiation therapy to the whole spine and brain, after which an extra dose of radiation to the back of the…
