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A brain-cancer regimen’s toll on young memories

A year or more after radiotherapy, kids recall fewer details of recent parties and trips.
MRI of child with a medulloblastoma

Children treated for brain tumours called medulloblastomas (large light-bulb-shaped orange and yellow mass, right) are less able to create some types of memory than peers who have not had cancer. Credit: Living Art Enterprises/SPL

A common brain-cancer treatment impairs children’s ability to form certain types of memory.

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Nature 560, 531 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05999-w

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