New Treatment Saves Children With Terminal Brain Cancer
About this episode
This episode discusses a new immunotherapy that has shown promise in treating terminal brain cancer in children.
Episode 391 Brain tumours are the most common and most deadly form of solid tumours in children. But a brand new kind of immunotherapy has shown incredible promise, saving four terminally ill children. By using a child’s own immune cells, this new treatment seems to work better than existing immunotherapies and causes fewer adverse side effects. Although it saved just 4 out of 33 participants, it’s still encouraging and researchers hope to continue trials. Join James Woodford and Alice Klein to find out how this new therapy works, how researchers plan to improve it, why brain tumours are so common and difficult to treat and what the future of treatment looks like. To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
People in this episode
Hosts: James Woodford, Alice Klein
Topics covered
- immunotherapy
- brain cancer
- children's health
- medical research
- treatment advancements
Keywords
- brain cancer
- immunotherapy
- children
- treatment
- medical research
- adverse side effects
- clinical trials
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Organizations: New Scientist
Places: brain tumours
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