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This week has been the first ever Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Week (13-19 January 2025). We wanted to share some of the ways we’ve been using this time to create meaningful change for the brain tumour community.

Following Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day, our advocates at the events share their experience of attending and what they would like to see happen next.

Theo Burrell shares her experience of advocating for faster diagnosis of brain tumours at the latest meeting of the Scottish Cross Party Group on Cancer.

One in four people in the UK dies without the care and support they need. We need to change this, but we need your help to do it. Take our palliative care survey and your voice could have an impact.

Wednesday 11 January was the second ever Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day. And, we were all over the UK representing our aim of finding a cure faster!

The 10-year Cancer Plan for England aims to set out a vision and long term approach for cancer services in England until 2032

Madelaine Powell, one of our Young Ambassadors, wrote about her thoughts ahead of the first ever Less Survivable Cancers Awareness Day on 11 January 2022.

As part of the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce we’re urging everyone to be more aware of the symptoms of these six cancers and seek medical help at the earliest opportunity if they recognise the signs.

Back in April, we published our brain tumour manifesto ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections to lay out the action the next Scottish Government needs to take to deliver vital progress for those affected by a brain tumour in Scotland.

The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) is calling for focus, prioritisation and investment in order to speed up the detection and diagnosis of the UK’s deadliest cancers.

As a key member of the LSCT, we met with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy Team for a virtual roundtable on Monday 6 July

Last Monday we met with our partners in the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT), in preparation for a virtual roundtable with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy team next week.

Our Young Ambassador, Hannah Kinsell, visited Westminster yesterday to speak to MPs about the work of The Brain Tumour Charity as part of World Cancer Day.

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

Our Policy & Public Affairs Officer, Helena Brown, reports from Scotland

In this second part of our coverage we look at what’s missing form the NHS Long Term Plan

Yesterday, we attended the Britain Against Cancer conference which celebrated 20 years of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Cancer (APPGC). Our Policy and Public Affairs Officer Helena Brown, reports.

This month The Charity convened a series of meetings with a number of Assembly Members in Wales, lobbying them on some of the most important issues affecting brain tumour patients in Wales

The petition called for NHS England to commit to doubling survival rates for the less survivable cancers in the long term plan, due to be published next month

Today we will deliver this petition to Government to demonstrate the weight of support behind it

Today sees the launch of the taskforce’s petition to commit NHS England to accept its five-year survival target

Last week the Government announced it will roll out a package of measures across the country aimed at seeing three out of four of all cancers detected at an early stage by 2028.

Cameron Miller, Head of Policy & Public Affairs highlights our recommendations for the NHS long term plan

Today sees the launch of the Less Survivable Cancer Taskforce’s campaign to double five-year survival for each of the six less survivable cancers