Calls for more funding to understand 'death sentence' brain cancer | ABC News

Each year around two dozen Australian families face the unimaginable when their children are diagnosed with a type of brain cancer that's always fatal. DIPG is considered the most deadly childhood cancer. But it isn't well known or understood, and treatment hasn't changed in half a century. Parents and scientists say, with young lives at stake, more federal funding for research is desperately needed. Subscribe: ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: www.abc.net.au...
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