<p>In 2014, Dana-Farber pediatric oncologist Brian Crompton, MD, discovered that a gene called STAG2 is mutated in about 15 percent of patients with Ewing sarcoma, a form of bone cancer that largely occurs in children and adolescents. Now, that molecular insight could hold the keys to advancing treatment for the disease.   New research led by senior authors Crompton and pediatric oncologist Katherine Janeway, MD, Dana-Farber Pediatric Oncology Section Chief and Chair of the Children’s ... <a class="read-more" href="https://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2025/11/dana-farber-research-opens-the-door-to-finding-more-effective-treatments-for-ewing-sarcoma/" title="Dana-Farber…
Dana-Farber Research Opens the Door to Finding More Effective Treatments for Ewing Sarcoma
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | | Beth Dougherty
Topics: skin-cancer, blood-cancer, cervical-cancer, sarcoma, pediatric-cancer, research