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For the first time ever, a 13-year-old boy has been cured of a deadly brain cancer

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Lucas Jemeljanova , 13 , was diagnosed with DIPG at age six .

Less than 10 percent of children survive longer than two years after diagnosis.

Lucas participated in a clinical trial called BIOMEDE in France .

Everolimus, a chemotherapy drug that works by blocking a protein called mTOR .

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English

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