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A brain tumor is the primary cause of cancer-related fatalities in children and second most common to teens, but a unique treatment is coming.
Brain tumors are the increasing cause of cancer-related fatalities in children under the age of ten and the second most common cause of cancer deaths in people under twenty. While brain cancer remains one of the most challenging cancers to treat, researchers at Dana Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center significantly improve survival rates in the coming years.
While survival rates for children with some forms of brain tumors have improved significantly in the last 30 years, current research aims to increase those rates in the coming years mainly. Scientists are concentrating their efforts on the fundamental genetic and genomic errors that cause tumors, as well as the components of the tumor's "microenvironment."