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Delivering packaged drugs into paediatric brain tumours using ultrasound

Diffuse midline glioma is a devastating brain tumour, affecting primarily young children. There’s currently no cure for this disease and treatment options are limited. This is mainly because this type of tumour is well-protected from drugs by the ‘blood-brain barrier’. This barrier physically blocks all medications from entering the brain. Our group has developed new methods of bypassing this barrier using focused ultrasound.

A doctor in blue scrubs talking to a young girl and her mother in a hospital room.

In hospital

Your child will usually need to spend some time in hospital during their treatment. All children and young people diagnosed with cancer are treated in one of the 21 specialist hospital centres across the UK and Ireland.