Allison Cheney, Graduate Student

 

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. To help spread awareness of the different cancers that impact children, we will be profiling a different researcher each week to talk about the cancer they study and how they hope their research will help in the fight against childhood cancer.  

What type of cancer do you research?

I am researching pediatric brain tumors, specifically pediatric high-grade gliomas (pHGG) and ependymomas. pHGGs usually affect elementary school-aged children and are incurable and fatal at this time. 

 

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