Entries by Tam

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

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 […]

Awards of Three New Grants in 2013

The PLGA Foundation has generously awarded Drs. Kieran and Stiles grants to support clinical research co-ordinators to increase the number of children and families who can participate in making new discoveries and advance treatments. The third grant was awarded to Dr. Keith Ligon, MD, PhD to fund research into mutated cancer-driving genes that an serves […]