Classifying childhood brain cancers by immune response may improve diagnostics and treatments

Researchers and pediatric neurosurgeons at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh developed a new way to profile brain cancers in children, paving the way for improved diagnostics and treatments.

Today in Science Translational Medicine, researchers describe a diagnostic platform that could classify brain tumors based on the body’s cancer-fighting immune response. This approach, which is complementary to traditional microscopic and genetic…

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