Brain Tumour Campaign

Thanks to your help we’re pleased to let you know that the government announced a series of new measures.

Health Minister George Freeman MP announced the government will:

• Seek to improve levels of earlier diagnosis and include brain cancer in the Genomics England programme
• Request the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) to produce a national register within a year to examine how public funds are spent on research
• Set up a “Task and Finish” working group at the Department of Health looking at areas highlighted by the Petitions Committee report.

Children with Cancer UK will keep you updated of further campaign developments, and also of the life-saving projects we’re funding through our Brain Tumour Initiative.

• Brain and spinal cord tumours are the most common solid tumour to occur in children, with around 400 new cases every year in the UK
• Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, yet just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease since 2002
• Brain tumours are one of the most common cancers to affect children and young people
• Many survivors of childhood brain tumours are left with life-altering, long term disabilities
• Incidences of brain tumours are increasing
• Research into brain tumours, in general, and childhood brain tumours, in particular, has not been well funded in the past, despite the very high burden imposed by these tumours.