New cancer treatment involves chemo shot to the brain

HOUSTON – Each year in the U.S., about 4,000 children are diagnosed with brain tumors. Most are treated with surgery, radiation and high doses of chemotherapy, which can have debilitating side effects.

A new way of thinking targets the tumor and leaves these toxic side effects behind, according to Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital.

“I was diagnosed in 2011 with medulloblastoma. I was 13,” Sydnie Reedy said.

Sydnie is 20 years old now. She’s battled brain tumors for a third of her life. She’s fighting her fifth recurrence with a treatment pioneered by UT Health and Children’s Memorial Hermann’s Dr. David Sandberg. Read full story

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