Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)– Childhood brain tumors have fewer genetic mutations than adult tumors, reports a new genomic analysis of medulloblastoma, a brain tumor that mainly affects children.
Identifying recurrent genetic changes in human tumors can shed light onto how tumors of a given type arise, and ideally spur new ideas for effective therapies. To date, this “cancer genomics” strategy has been applied only to adult cancers. Now, D. Williams Parsons and colleagues catalogue the genetic alterations…
