One of the Bay Area’s leading children’s hospitals has joined another in a group dedicated to eradicating brain cancer and tumors in children.
Stanford Medicine’s Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital entered the Pediatric Neuro-Oncology Consortium earlier this month as one of more than 40 participating sites. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco serves as the “mission control center” coordinating the research and clinical trials across all the involved institutions, according to a statement the nonprofit foundation supporting the consortium issued earlier this month.
UCSF Drs. Michael Prados and Sabine Mueller co-founded the consortium in 2012, convincing a handful of other West Coast hospitals to join together to advance research of childhood brain cancer and tumors…