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Duke University Will Study Pediatric Brain Cancer

By Bonnie Rochman, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 6--DURHAM, N.C.--Duke University's cancer center has established the country's first pediatric brain tumor institute with a $6 million grant from the Asheville-based Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation, the largest foundation gift the center has ever received.

The Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation Institute will research childhood brain tumors, the most deadly of pediatric cancers, officials said Thursday. About 60 percent of children with brain tumors survive at least five ...

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