Optimism about finding a crop treatment affecting the brain stem after a child cures a rare cancer

The crop that affects the brain stem is rare, but a killer, and it is one of the most dangerous forms of brain cancer in children, but a unique state of healing a child from it raised great hope in the French research circles. Despite the progress achieved in the treatment of a number of children’s cancer resolving its international day on Thursday, the cerebral crop that affects between 50 and 100 children and teens in France every year is a challenge for medicine. Although the survival rate in childhood cancer is up to 85%for five years, it is difficult to treat some of these cases, including the inner, internal tribal tumor. This crop cannot be eradicated with surgery, which is why doctors usually use radiotherapy that sometimes helps to slow down the disease, but its effect is temporary. No medication is effective to this day. The child “Luka” and the growth of this tumor are very fast, and usually lead to the death of the patient during a period of nine months and 12 months after its discovery. However, the Belgian child, Luka, is currently 13 years old, has challenged all expectations as he was discovered in this disease that is not in principle to recover when he was six, but it is considered that he healed, as the signs of the tumor no longer appear in his brain. “Luka has blew up all the life meters,” says his doctor, Jack Greel, who runs the brain tumor program at the children’s cancer department in the Gustave Rossi Cancer Center in southern Paris. The pediatrician said he was informed of Luca’s parents seven years ago that their son would die. On that day, his family moved to France to enable him to receive treatment, and the young child was one of the first patients to join a clinical trial to test a new drug that is a purposeful treatment. Luka replied very well with the treatment from the beginning. The results of MRI once and then to Dr. Grill showed that “the tumor completely disappeared.” However, despite these wonderful results, he did not make a decision to stop the medicine until he realized a year and a half ago that the child himself stopped taking it. “It is not scientific that there is such a case in the world,” the doctor added, whose team started doing research on this cancer about 15 years ago. Researchers are currently focusing on knowing the reason for Luca’s recovery, and how to transform his medical condition is a source of hope for hundreds of young people in the future. About ten other children are still included in the lively years after their injury was discovered, and their expected average age exceeded the age of statistics, but their crops did not completely disappear. The ‘New Therapeutic Road’ and Dr. Grill has seen that the increase in average life expectancy is due to ‘biological properties of their crops’, which explains their reaction better than other patients undergoing treatment. The pediatrician, also a researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (Insert), noted that “Luka’s crop was very rare.” “We believe that this museum influenced its cancer cells through the middle,” he added. In an experiment under implementation, it is performed by the ‘biomed’ pharmaceutical enterprise, and the medication that Luca received is compared to a promising new remedy, and the researchers of the Gustav Rossi Center are not satisfied with the study of genetic deformities of all patients, but also make the oncology member of the tumor (three -dimensional copies of the tumor. be affected), to understand and understand their biological form) medicines. “The case of Luca opens real hope, and we will try to reproduce the changes we have monitored in his cells,” says Mary Ann Devili, a professor and researcher who oversees this work. In practice, the medical teams seek to discover whether the changes in the DNA that appeared in Luka also led to the contraction of other patients’ crops as soon as they “reproduce” them. And if it becomes clear that the matter, “the next step is to find the medicine that causes the effect of these cellular changes on cancer cells,” according to Marie Ann Devili. However, doctors are enthusiastic for this ‘therapeutic path’, warning that it will take years before reaching a healing remedy. “It takes on average between 10 or 15 years (…), which is next to a long -term work,” Jacques Grill said.