Dual-drug treatment offers hope to children with rare brain cancer

Scientists make promising' breakthrough on fast-growing DIPG type of tumour

Scientists have successfully combined two existing cancer drugs to create a treatment for children diagnosed with deadly brain tumours.

Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare and fast-growing type of brain tumour in children, can mutate and evolve to resist treatment with a single drug. There is currently no cure and many children found to have the disease die within months.