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Dominic Giannini

Funding boost in fight against childhood brain cancer

Research and trials in the fight against childhood brain cancer will receive a funding boost. (William West/AAP PHOTOS)

Research into childhood brain cancer is getting a $20 million boost in a bid to find new treatments.

Brain cancers are the most common solid tumours in children and the most deadly, causing more deaths than all others combined despite the overall survival rate for childhood cancer being above 80 per cent.

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