title: Time to rethink the unthinkable: upfront biopsy of children with newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).
authors.affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, Pediatric Neuro-Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Mark W
authors.initials: MW
authors.lastname: Kieran
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D020295:Brain Stem Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005910:Glioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis