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Significant funding boost for research as The Brain Tumour Charity announces £1.5million investment
Significant funding boost for research as The Brain Tumour Charity announces £1.5million investment
The Brain Tumour Charity has today announced £1.5million funding into 10 world class projects across the UK in a bid to understand brain tumours and ultimately cure them. (27 March 2013)
 
Scientists put the brakes on runaway brain tumours
Scientists put the brakes on runaway brain tumours
An international effort to improve our knowledge of the behaviour of one of the most aggressive and lethal forms of brain tumour has yielded exciting new insights in work funded by The Brain Tumour Charity and Cancer Research UK. (25 March 2013)
 
Fearless fundraisers walk on fire to raise funds for brain tumour research
Fearless fundraisers walk on fire to raise funds for brain tumour research
The brave bunch took part in a fire walk at Rushmoor Fire Station on Tuesday evening to raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity. With temperatures reaching 1200 °F and no special effects it was a truly exceptional challenge! (22 March 2013)
 
The Brain Tumour Charity takes HeadSmart to Westminster
The Brain Tumour Charity takes HeadSmart to Westminster
Community Champions, members of the public, clinicians, researchers and others joined The Brain Tumour Charity to take The Charity’s award-winning HeadSmart: be brain tumour aware campaign to Parliament to tell MPs about the urgent need to increase awareness of the symptoms of brain tumours in children and young people amongst health professionals and parents. (Wednesday 20 March 2013)
 
Annual Joseph Foote Ball wows guests yet again!
Annual Joseph Foote Ball wows guests yet again!
The ball, now in its 14th year, is held to raise crucial funds for The Brain Tumour Charity, while paying tribute to a Solihull boy who sadly lost his life to a brain tumour in 2007. Significant funds were raised to fund research into brain tumours as well as over one hundred guests pledging to raise £1,000 each over the next year! (6 March 2013)
 
Touching music tribute by prisoners to teenager who died of a brain tumour
Touching music tribute by prisoners to teenager who died of a brain tumour
A charity single has been released in aid of The Charity's HeadSmart campaign, recorded by serving UK prisoners who were touched by the story of 16 year-old David “DD” Langton-Gilks, who battled a brain tumour for five years. Song for DD is a moving tribute to the brave teenager. (4 March 2013)
 
Tom Daley goes Bandanas for charity
Tom Daley goes Bandanas for charity
Olympic bronze medallist, Tom Daley is supporting Bandanas for Brain Tumours on 1st March to boost awareness about brain tumours, raise crucial funds for research and to support those who are affected by a brain tumour. (19 February 2013)
 
Jewellery company teams up with brain tumour charity to create stunning bracelet to raise vital funds
Jewellery company teams up with brain tumour charity to create stunning bracelet to raise vital funds
Silver Republic teamed up with The Brain Tumour Charity to create the bracelet in The Charity’s brand colours in a touching tribute to a little boy who had died of a brain tumour. (1 February 2013)
 
Wiltshire County Council leads the way in helping the nation recognise the symptoms of a childhood brain tumour
Wiltshire County Council leads the way in helping the nation recognise the symptoms of a childhood brain tumour
Wiltshire County Council have agreed to distribute HeadSmart symptom cards from The Brain Tumour Charity to every school in the county, ensuring that parents, carers and teachers are all aware of the symptoms of a brain tumour in a child and can get the appropriate medical attention. (21 January 2013)
 
From lab to life – ground-breaking research leads to significant breakthrough for medulloblastoma
From lab to life – ground-breaking research leads to significant breakthrough for medulloblastoma
11 years and over £600,000 of research investment by The Brain Tumour Charity, the UK’s largest dedicated funder of brain tumour research, has paid dividends as the work has transformed our understanding of medulloblastoma, the most common, malignant brain tumour in children. (9 December 2012).
 
Glow in the dark brains aid tumour surgery
Glow in the dark brains aid tumour surgery
A multi-centre phase II clinical trial for a pioneering new surgical technique has started in the UK, jointly funded by The Brain Tumour Charity and Cancer Research UK.
 

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