Brain Tumor Scientists Map Mutation that Drives Tumors in Childhood Cancer Survivors (VIDEO)

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Neuroscientists have uncovered the genetic basis for why many long-term survivors of childhood cancer develop meningiomas, the most common adult brain tumor, decades after their treatment with cranial radiation.

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