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Combining Disulfiram, a medication commonly used to treat chronic alcoholism, with copper ions kills medulloblastoma cancer cells and prevents new ones from growing.

Combing copper and a drug once used to treat alcoholism may offer a way to treat children with medulloblastoma, a common but deadly form of brain tumor.

On the left is a magnetic resonance image of a child’s medulloblastoma brain tumor, and on the right, a photomicrograph of medulloblastoma cells. The