Belgian Boy is the First Child in the World to Have Been Cured of Brain Stem Glioma, a Brutal Cancer

 

Advances in medicine over the decades have seen the 5-year survival rate of children diagnosed with cancer increase to 85%, but there are outliers to that average—with few more sinister than brain stem glioma. When French doctor Jacques Grill first saw these tumors in a young Belgian boy, it was a straightforward, agonizing conversation he […]

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