Study explores if herpes combined with vaccine can cure childhood brain cancer

Researchers say children with aggressive brain tumours are in desperate need of targeted, less-toxic therapies. Picture: Ben Birchall/PA

Researchers are investigating whether the herpes virus combined with a vaccine could cure an aggressive type of brain cancer in children.

For children with high-grade gliomas – malignant tumours – the three-year survival rate is only 11% to 22%.