Trials of a new approach to childhood cancer have doubled the survival rates for some patients.
At just four weeks old, Scout Bradstreet underwent surgery to remove a brain tumour. Her mother Edwina said it was hard to remain optimistic at times, as Scout underwent further treatment. "I was always very positive, like 'Oh it'll be fine, it'll just be this or it'll just be that'. And then the brain tumour was like 'Oh God where do I find the positivity here?" she said.
"It might be a genetic change that we see in adults with melanoma, or adults with breast cancer, and not one that we normally see in children's cancer," study author, professor David Ziegler, said. "But we will then access the drug that's usually used to treat adult melanoma patients, and instead use that to treat this child with cancer.
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