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Get your chemotherapy questions answered at our virtual Q&A
The Q&A will be held in BRIAN, our online app for people affected by a brain tumour. It’s free to attend and easy to sign up.
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Pressure for government response to funding research into brain tumours gathers momentum
Several high profile stories and a grandmother’s petition reaches this week’s PMQs and brain tumours are scheduled for a parliamentary debate
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Life after shielding
After being told she no longer needs to shield, Grace Latter tells us how she’s coping with her new-found freedom.
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Grab those controllers, it’s Game Over for Brain Tumours
Today we launch our virtual gaming fundraising campaign
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Picking up the pace of meningioma research
Dr Gelareh Zadeh is leading research in Canada which will help predict the risk of meningioma regrowth.
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Data is critical
Sarah Lindsell and Professor Ashkan discuss the difference BRIAN will make to researchers and healthcare professionals in helping to diagnose, treat and manage brain tumours
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The Brain Tumour Charity and Meningioma UK are to merge
Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19 which has seen demand for support services soar, the merger is the latest move towards consolidation in a sector historically populated with small charities, many of them founder-led.
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Covid-19: How has it impacted our community and what our support services are doing to help
The ongoing pandemic has hit our community of people affected by a brain tumour diagnosis hard.
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Announcing our new multi-million pound investment into research
Many things are uncertain right now, but our commitment to research isn’t one of them.
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My inspiration to climb Mount Kilimanjaro for The Lewis Moody Foundation
Life challenges you. Some challenges are chosen. Some are not. Over two years ago one of the hardest challenges I have ever had to face took the floor from under me. One of my closest friends became unwell. She was to and fro from doctors for a while trying to decipher the cause of the […]
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Improving patient experience is our priority
The recent National Cancer Patient Experience Survey highlighted, once again, that those diagnosed with a brain tumour have one of the worst experiences of all cancer patients.
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Grandmother’s petition for research reaches milestone 100,000
Fiona started the petition to call the Government to tackle hard to treat childhood cancers after her grandson died from a brain tumour.
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Get your free bandana on…but not as you know it
We’ve a limited stock of our iconic bandanas up for grabs to repurpose into COVID-19 facemasks.
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Our free research webinars bring the research community together in lockdown.
The Brain Tumour Charity is curating and facilitating a series of 60-minute webinars for researchers. The webinars feature experts in the brain tumour field speaking on a wide range of current topics.
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Preparing for the roundtable with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy Team
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.
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Listen to our High Profile Supporter Hal Cruttenden’s podcast
Award-winning graphic designer’s ‘100 Stories’ podcast features Hal.
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Focused ultrasound shows early promise in glioblastoma brain tumours
Researchers are pioneering a promising use of focused ultrasound against glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour.
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Announcing our partnership with Public Health England
This pioneering analytical partnership with Public Health England’s National Disease Registration Service will lead to us collaborating much more closely, in order to improve the availability of brain tumour information for the benefit of our community.
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Researchers develop a new ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test to accurately diagnose certain types of primary brain tumour
Researchers have developed a new ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test to diagnose brain tumours, which could reduce the need for invasive procedures.
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Our support for the #OneCancerVoice 12-point plan for restoring cancer services
COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis which has had a profound impact on health and care services across the UK and will continue to have an impact for the months and years to come.
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Researchers identify genes that can drive development of brain tumours
The human genome contains nearly 22,000 genes and various studies have explored the nearly 2% of DNA that creates proteins. Far less is known about the remaining 98% of DNA that does not encode protein.
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Glioblastoma Awareness Day – Oliver’s Story
Oliver Highway was diagnosed with a Grade 4 Glioblastoma (GBM) in 2012. Glioblastoma’s are some of the most devastating types of brain tumour, with average survival time being just 12-18 months, with minimal treatment options. Just 5% of patients survive longer than 5 years. Oliver is one of this 5%, now in his 8th year […]
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Artificial Intelligence improves Brain tumour diagnosis
A new machine learning approach can classify gliomas, a common type of brain tumour, into low or high grades with almost 98% accuracy, researchers report in the journal IEEE Access.
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Advice for employees returning to work
Our Head of Talent, Laura Smith, shares her thoughts on the daunting prospect of returning to work after the covid-19 pandemic.