Author: Glenn Saitch

Our Optical Engagement Manager, Lorcan Butler, is delighted to be partnering with opticians and optometrists in Scotland to help diagnose brain tumours earlier.

Rhudi Baume-Kennedy, 20, explains how his experience of spending nine months trying to get a diagnosis for his symptoms has driven his support for The Charity’s work.

While there’s no escaping the grief caused by losing someone to a brain tumour, our supporters have shared how they made sure those final moments count.

Dominique, mother-of-two, reveals how she was diagnosed with a brain tumour just three weeks after giving birth and the toll this took on her mental health.

Kirstin, a communications professional and mum-of-two, had vivid hallucinations and visual disturbances put down to an ear infection before she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

A daughter who lost her beloved dad to the most aggressive form of brain tumour has shared her heartfelt and candid motivation for completing fundraising challenges to support The Brain Tumour Charity.

Our Manifesto urges local MSP candidates to pledge support for those affected by a brain tumour in Scotland.

A nurse who almost lost the vision in her right eye due to an undiagnosed brain tumour and had her symptoms blamed on peri menopause has been putting her best foot forward to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Diana has has shared the acute pain she has experienced since losing Gunnar, her adored husband and father to their children, to a brain tumour. She hopes illustrate the difficulties the family faced since Gunnar’s diagnosis.

We hope this information will help address some of our community’s concerns about the coronavirus (COVID-19). UPDATED 29 July 2021

A dedicated fundraiser who lost his wife to a brain tumour has completed a virtual walk from John O’Groat’s to Lands End and back to support The Brain Tumour Charity.

We’ve collected all the answers from our recent virtual coronavirus Q&A with expert medical professionals from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and The Walton Centre.

If you have potential symptoms of a brain tumour, or an existing diagnosis with recurring symptoms, it’s important not to delay seeking advice, even during the covid-19 pandemic.

After being diagnosed with a grade 2 meningioma in January 2017, Andy believes he received world-class physical care but his emotional support was lacking. He recently took part in our Improving Brain Tumour Care surveys, to help improve care across the country for everybody affected by a brain tumour.

We’ve collected all the answers from our recent virtual rehabilitation Q&A with expert medical professionals from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

We’ve collected all the answers from our recent virtual radiotherapy Q&A with expert medical professionals from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Share your experiences and help create change in the treatment and care received by people living with a brain tumour diagnosis.

Our future may be uncertain but my First Dates love has taught me to live life to the full.

Becky Best had died from brain cancer at the age of 56, just three months after being diagnosed, after her daughter’s wedding was bought forward in the hope she’d be able to attend.

Desperately taping her eye open, Allana Prosser was determined to prove doctors wrong and see out of her right eye again after a devastating operation to remove a deadly brain tumour – months after it was misdiagnosed as a cheese allergy.

Parents were told to take their daughter home to die when she had a stroke at 11, but now she’s a thriving 18-year-old after they battled to find a treatment to save her.

Brain tumours among diseases that miss out on research funding, says our joint charity report

The launch aims to reach over a million teenagers through the innovative social App.

Chelsea Yeomans feared she would never find love after being diagnosed with a brain tumour but now she’s marrying the man of her dreams.