Brain tumour statistics UK

These brain tumour statistics are shocking. We believe that fighting brain tumours on all fronts by funding research, raising awareness and offering support is the only way to save lives, reduce long-term disabilities and help everyone affected by a brain tumour diagnosis.

The statistics about brain tumours in the UK

• Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of children and young adults under 40 in the UK¹.
• Around 13,000 people in the UK are diagnosed with a primary brain tumour every year². 
• In England, 12.9% of adults diagnosed with brain cancer survive five years or more³ compared to an average across all cancers of 56%⁴.
• Brain cancer reduces life expectancy by an average of 27 years⁵.
• More than 5,400 people lose their lives to a brain tumour each year⁶. 
• Brain cancer clinical trials have the lowest recruitment levels of all cancer clinical trials⁷. 

These brain tumour statistics were put together in collaboration with Brain Tumour Support, brainstrust, and Brain Tumour Research. For more information on this, read our blog about our collaboration on brain tumour data.

Brain tumour statistics infographic

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Our values

Our values underpin our culture, the way we do things and what we believe in. The way we work is:

Community First

We will always centre the needs of our community-first – ensuring that our work is meaningfully informed by those with lived, learned and practiced experience and that they are the driving force behind the decisions that we make.

We’ll encourage all voices to be heard, and we will be united in our purpose – cultivating a sense of belonging and inclusivity for everyone and creating the change that is needed, together.

Collaborative

We choose collaboration as a route to delivering the best outcomes. We choose to lean on each other, share openly and include intentionally – as we know that we’re stronger together.

We’ll actively seek out and support diverse perspectives and utilise expertise and knowledge wherever it exists.

We choose to operate without an ego and as part of an eco-system so everyone can join in.

Bold

We are unapologetically true to ourselves and our mission. We will be courageous and we’ll think bigger – we have to, as there is no time to waste.

We’ll be confident and relentless in challenging the status-quo, even when that means making difficult decisions.

We’re determined, focused and unstoppable.

Innovative

We are creative and adopt a growth mind-set, constantly using our experience and imaginations to find smarter and more effective ways to make progress.

We’re unafraid to think differently, to find new ways to solve old problems and embrace agile principles that allow us to ‘test and learn; so we can move at pace in pursuit of our shared vision.

Find out more about our progress since the launch of our strategy. We have taken bold steps towards our goals but there is still so much to do. Please join us and be part of the change.