Unusual Treatment Shows Promise for Kids With Brain Tumors
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This 2016 photo provided by the family shows Jake Kestler, center, with his parents, Gallite and Josh, and his sister, Lily. This is one month before he was diagnosed with brain cancer. (Family Photo via AP)
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For many years, a deadly type of childhood cancer has escaped science’s best treatments. But now doctors have made progress with an unusual treatment. They inject a virus into the brain to infect the
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Unusual treatment shows promise for kids with brain tumors
MARILYNN MARCHIONE, AP Chief Medical Writer
April 11, 2021
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1of6This 2016 photo provided by the family shows Jake Kestler, center, with his parents, Gallite and Josh, and his sister, Lily, a month before he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Jake received a genetically-modified virus-based treatment for the cancer when he was 12. He lived for a year and four months after that, long enough to celebrate his bar mitzvah, go with his family to Hawaii and see a brother be born, said his father, Josh Kestler, of Livingston, N.J. Jake s parents started a foundation, Trail Blazers for Kids, to further research. (Family Photo via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
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