Where:
Broad Institute
415 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02142
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Date Idea, Lectures & Conferences, Social Good
Event website:
http://broad.io/msns2018braintumors
Pediatric brain tumors: The frontier of childhood cancers
Speaker: Pratiti (Mimi) Bandopadhayay
Pediatric brain tumors are the most common ‘solid tumor’ of childhood, and some of the most challenging to treat. While the cure rates for many childhood cancers have improved, brain tumors remain the leading cause of cancer-related death in children, with some tumors completely lacking curative treatments. However, with the recent explosion of technologies for profiling cancer genomes, our knowledge of childhood cancers is growing by leaps and bounds, such that we are, for the first time, starting to understand how childhood brain tumors grow. In her talk, Mimi will discuss the challenges in treating children with brain tumors, and will highlight how the path to precision medicine is providing tremendous hope that improved treatments will come about for children diagnosed with brain tumors.