Gene Discovery Could Lead to Better Treatment of Childhood Cancers - UVA Today

UVA researchers have found that a gene known to cause a deadly type of brain cancer is behind two other childhood cancers as well. The discovery could lead to more effective treatments for cancers in children and adults.

Lis 2020 discovery was named one of the years biggest biomedical discoveries by the editors of health news site STAT. Lis latest work builds on that research and suggests that AVIL is even more impor… [+2169 chars]

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