{"id":1636,"date":"2024-06-15T10:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T10:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/advances-in-medulloblastoma-treatment-for-children\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T10:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T10:49:18","slug":"advances-in-medulloblastoma-treatment-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/advances-in-medulloblastoma-treatment-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Advances in medulloblastoma treatment for children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Though rare, medulloblastoma is the most common cancerous brain tumor in children. These tumors begin in the lower back part of the brain called the cerebellum, which is important for balance, coordination and movement. Medulloblastomas are embryonal tumors that grow from embryonal cells left over from fetal development. &#8220;Of all the tumors we see in pediatrics, 20% are medulloblastoma,&#8221; says Jonathan Schwartz, D.O., a Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center pediatric neuro-oncologist. About 500 children in the U.S. are diagnosed with medulloblastoma each year. &#8220;The peak age is between 5 and <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/advances-in-medulloblastoma-treatment-for-children\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though rare, medulloblastoma is the most common cancerous brain tumor in children. These tumors begin in the lower back part of the brain called the cerebellum, which is important for balance, coordination and movement. Medulloblastomas are embryonal tumors that grow from embryonal cells left over from fetal development. &#8220;Of all the tumors we see in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}