Author: fran

Today we’re proud to announce a package of research initiatives totalling £4.3m.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has released an updated edition of the 2007 Classification of Tumours of the Central Nervous System.

Having lost her Mum to a brain tumour in 2007, Sarah Lambkin embarked on an extreme challenge to raise funds towards finding a cure.

Tasha Floyd, one of our first Young Ambassadors, who died at the end of 2015 at the age of 24, donated her brain to medical research. Early in 2015, she took a lead role in launching our five-year strategy, Defeating Brain Tumours.

Sean Parker, the billionaire co-founder of Napster, is donating $250 million to create The Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, with the ambitious goal of making the disease curable.

A new scanning technique, designed to show more rapidly whether cancer drugs have worked, is being trialed on a cancer patient at Addenbrooke’s hospital, Cambridge.

Fantastic progress has been made last week with over 25,000 HeadSmart symptoms cards distributed to 46 schools across Bournemouth.

We are proud to unveil our latest animation, My Brother has a Brain Tumour. The animation has been designed to help children come to terms with the diagnosis of a sibling and aims to improve life today for families affected.

Get involved with our Bandanas for Brain Tumours campaign this year. By joining us and wearing it out, you can raise awareness of brain tumours and vital funds for research into early diagnosis.

Finding Myself in Your Hands focuses specifically on peoples interactions with the NHS, healthcare professionals and their treatment of brain tumours and gives us an honest insight into experiences across the UK.

On Wednesday 9th December the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Brain Tumours held a meeting in Westminster to discuss the new five year Independent Cancer Taskforce Strategy. The event was well attended and several MPs came along to listen to the experiences and concerns of our supporters.

Deadly viruses are being combined with a cancer cell killing virus in trials aimed at destroying glioma brain tumours.

We were recently pleased to hear that the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) will be developing a new guideline on primary brain tumours and cerebral metastases.

We’re aiming to tackle the issue of late diagnosis of brain tumours. For this to happen we’ve enlisted the support of researchers, GPs and our community, to drive awareness and effect change to diagnosis times. Spearheading this Christmas Campaign is Sophie O’Hagan.

Ewan MacKerracher, a ten year old boy from Coleraine, Northern Ireland, has been diagnosed twice in the past with brain tumours. He has been waiting almost two years for a routine scan that could show any recurrence of the disease.

One of our fantastic Young Ambassadors April Watkins recently met with Caroline Lucas, the country’s first Green Party MP in Brighton, where she was able to share details of our HeadSmart campaign and her personal experiences as a young adult going through treatment for a brain tumour.

The potential benefit of the Off-patent Drugs Bill to people affected by a brain tumour has been highlighted in an editorial featured in The Telegraph. The paper also features a letter in support of The Bill signed by 40 clinicians including Professor Susan Short who is leading a clinical trial to investigate the effect of hydroxychloroquine on high grade gliomas undergoing radiotherapy.

Physicists from the University of Sydney are using synthetic nano-diamonds (molecular levels of size) to identify cancer cells during non-invasive MRI scans.

The Northern Ireland Cancer Patient Experience Survey contains data on the experience of 3,200 cancer patients between 2014 and 2015, including 28 patients with high-grade brain tumours.

An enhanced Australian rabbit virus may pave the way for future drug-virus treatments of GBM.

Our ten year old supporter Amelia Gebruers won a Pride of Britain award for her fundraising achievements.

A pioneering development in Gamma Knife radiosurgery treatment of brain tumours is undergoing trials at Bristol Royal Infirmary.

People with a brain tumour could be prevented from accessing low cost and readily available drugs that have been proven to treat their tumour because the drugs are no longer covered by a manufacturer’s patent. Ask your local MP to vote in favour of the Off-Patent Drugs Bill on 6th November to ensure we change this.