We Can’t Wait – Donate Today
When it comes to research progress, there’s no time to lose.
Brain tumours are still the biggest cancer killer of children and adults under 40. Yet just 3% of UK cancer research funding is spent on research into brain tumours. It’s simply not enough. The researchers we fund are working relentlessly, day after day, determined to make progress and save lives – but if we’re going to make more breakthroughs faster, we need your support.
Please don’t wait. Donate below and help end the wait for everyone living with a brain tumour.
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Arthur’s Story
We can’t wait another 20 Christmases for the next life-changing treatment, for people like Arthur.
The long, exciting build up to Christmas will feel easy for 11-year-old Arthur this year. Like many people living with a brain tumour, he’s an expert at waiting. Waiting for appointments, for results – and for the breakthrough treatment that changed his life.
Arthur and his family are all too aware that they are one of the lucky ones and, sadly, also the minority. Tragically, for many others, the wait was just too long.
Arthur’s treatment is the result of a research breakthrough that occurred 20 years ago, research funded by The Brain Tumour Charity. But for others like Arthur, we can’t wait another 20 Christmases for the next life-changing treatment.
Arthur is a walking, talking example of why it’s so important that we find less toxic, kinder treatments for childhood brain tumours.
– Claire, Arthur’s mum
Arthur was just three-years-old when he first became unwell. After an initial misdiagnosis of epilepsy, an MRI revealed a brain tumour the size of a tennis ball.
After two operations, a scan showed that the tumour was continuing to grow. That’s when Arthur was enrolled on a two-year clinical trial for a new medication that targeted the BRAF mutation. Very quickly, the size of the tumour reduced by around 80%.
Arthur, now 11, is still taking the new drug at home. He can go to school, play with his friends, and enjoy life. “It’s life changing,” said Arthur’s mum, Claire. “It’s so important that there is research out there to find treatments like this.”
You could help accelerate the next discovery
20 years ago, The Brain Tumour Charity funded groundbreaking research led by Dr David Jones. It was his team that uncovered the role that the BRAF genetic mutation plays in the growth of some childhood brain tumours. This discovery would lead to new treatments being developed – only one of which is now available on the NHS.
But with 130 different types of brain tumour affecting both children and adults there’s so much more we need to do.
Your support could help accelerate the next discovery for the estimated 88,000 people living with a brain tumour in the UK today.
We can’t wait for the next breakthrough.
It took almost 20 years for Dr Jones’ breakthrough to be translated into an NHS treatment. Thanks to the researchers we fund, we’re making progress. But we can’t wait another 20 Christmases for kinder, better tretments for the brain tumour community – not when 34 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour every day.
Please help us accelerate life-changing research this Christmas.
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