Dr. Michelle Monje
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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They deserve effective therapy.
And I do believe that the...
The answer is now within reach.
It felt very far from reach when I started this 20 years ago.
But now I really believe that each of these different
lines of inquiry are going to lead us to truly effective therapy.
And one thing that is incredibly heartening and that also helps keep me going is that when we discover something in diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma and other diffuse midline gliomas or in glioblastoma, we find that what we've discovered is applicable to other cancers in ways that we couldn't have predicted.
And so the work feels very meaningful from that perspective because some common principles are really emerging.
It makes some sense that cancers of the nervous system would take advantage of nervous system activity, but we've also found that brain metastases, for example from lung cancer, do the same thing when they go to the brain.
It's also now clear that peripheral nerves throughout the body
are interacting with peripheral cancers in ways that are growth promoting, metastasis promoting, and similarly targetable when you disrupt these connections.
So this whole field of cancer neuroscience has emerged largely from this initial work in childhood brain cancers.
That's very satisfying, seeing these common principles that have the potential to really help millions of people facing cancer is very promising and very encouraging to keep going down these paths.
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