Casty Family Award for Achievement in Mentoring 2014

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PLGA Scientific Director, Charles Stiles, PhD is awarded the 2014 Casty Family Achievement in Mentoring Award

PLGA Scientific Director, Charles Stiles, PhD is awarded the 2014 Casty Family Achievement in Mentoring Award

On March 12th, our PLGA Program Scientific Director was awarded the 2014 Casty Family Achievement in Mentoring Award.  Many of Dr. Stiles’ past and present trainees attended the event held at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and enjoyed a look back over Dr Stiles’ career as a scientist and mentor.  Congratulations Dr Stiles!

Long-term outcome of 4,040 children diagnosed with pediatric low-grade gliomas: An analysis of the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) database, Pediatric Blood and Cancer

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This paper, published in Pediatric Blood and Cancer, is a collaboration between work carried out in the laboratory of Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD and clinical data from Mark Kieran, MD, PhD. The researchers examined the long-term survival rates of adults who had low-grade gliomas as children. Here they show that patients with previous disease have an excellent long-term survival outcome, and treatment strategies should focus on disease management with minimal toxicity.