The frontline of paediatric brain tumour diagnostics: Advances, challenges and opportunities

January 2025

Matt Clarke and Tom Jacques of Great Ormond Street report on paediatric brain tumours.

Brain tumours in children have a devastating impact through the years of life lost and life-altering disability. Pathology is the principal step in determining their outcomes because it is the major determinant of treatments that define the likelihood of survival and damage to the developing brain.