Brain cancer: a child's cure raises great hopes for research. Diagnosed at six years old with this disease deemed incurable, his brain no longer showing signs of the tumor.
Despite progress in the treatment of pediatric cancers, at the center of a world day on Thursday, this tumor affecting 50 to 100 children and adolescents each year in France represents a challenge for the medical world. If the five-year survival rate for pediatric cancer now reaches 85%, some of them, including infiltrating brainstem glioma, still have a poor prognosis.