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Molecular drug imaging to guide brain cancer therapy

Drug Delivery in Paediatric Brain Tumours

Published: 8 Feb 2016

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Dr Dannis Van Vuurden - VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Dr Van Vuurden talks to ecancertv at Children with Cancer UK’s workshop on Drug Delivery in Paediatric Brain Tumours in London, UK.

In the interview he discusses how molecular drug imaging can be used to guide drug therapy for childhood brain cancers.

Specifically, he talks about the use of molecular drug imaging to help deliver drugs to the brainstem of children with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) and paediatric high-grade glioma (pHGG).

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