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Accurate diagnosis of pediatric brain cancers

Nature Medicine volume 29, pages 787–788 (2023)Cite this article

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Integrative approaches continue to improve diagnostic accuracy for pediatric brain cancers, but much more is needed from researchers, governments and regulators if precision medicine with curative treatments are to become a reality.

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Fig. 1: Broad impact of diagnostic accuracy for pediatric brain cancers.

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  1. Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center, Boston, MA, USA

    Pratiti Bandopadhayay

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Pratiti Bandopadhayay

  3. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Pratiti Bandopadhayay

  4. The Rasmussen Institute for Genomic Medicine at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA

    Elaine R. Mardis

  5. Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Columbus, OH, USA

    Elaine R. Mardis

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P.B. receives grant funding from Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research and has received grant funding from Deerfield Therapeutics, both for unrelated projects. P.B. has also served on a paid advisory board for QED Therapeutics. E.R.M. serves on the supervisory board of Qiagen N.V., the board of directors for Singular Genomics Inc. and a paid advisory board for Scorpion Therapeutics LLC.

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Bandopadhayay, P., Mardis, E.R. Accurate diagnosis of pediatric brain cancers. Nat Med 29, 787–788 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-023-02254-2

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