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As part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we’re shining a light on our pioneering paediatric Family Led Charity partners.

This Childhood Cancer Awareness Month we’re sharing Billy’s story to highlight the urgent need to accelerate cures for childhood brain tumours.

The Brain Tumour Charity are delighted to announce a new partnership with The Albie Sugden Foundation, an incredible charity whose aims are to support children living with brain tumours and to fund paediatric research to find a cure.

Alexander, 10, can now have treatment at home and his family can close their crowdfunding page.

The Glad Game has been turned into a book, play and film, to help people stay positive during the darkest times.

Zachery Eckworth, now 11 years and living in Hampshire, was just 14 months old when we was diagnosed with an optic nerve glioma.

Ramona Read was just nine-years-old when she was diagnosed with a low-grade pilocytic astrocytoma in 2021. Her mum, Vicky, shares their story ahead of their appearance on Channel 4’s The Dog House – where families are matched with dogs who hope to find their forever home.

Namrata and Bhavesh Pandya, from Harrow, are calling for more research into DIPG brain tumours

James was first diagnosed with a brain tumour after having a seizure in 2018. Since then, he has had two awake craniotomies and a string of treatment types. Here, he shares his story on how he has navigated the uncertainty which came with it all.

A family has shared how they are preparing themselves, including their teenage children, for losing their father after he was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour.

A daughter who cared for her mum after being diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour is taking on a sponsored skydive to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity to help fund vital research to find a cure for the disease.

A mum who was diagnosed with a brain tumour is taking on a fun run with her family to help find a cure for the disease.

A dad says his career in the British Army gave him the coping mechanisms to manage a terminal brain tumour diagnosis alongside the birth of his second child.

A family is calling for greater awareness of the disease amongst the medical community after their son’s brain tumour was undiagnosed for nearly a decade.

A mum says her brain tumour went undiagnosed and blamed on anxiety until she saw someone with the same symptoms on Channel 4’s ‘First Dates’.

A dad with a terminal brain tumour says losing his driving license was incredibly difficult as it took away his independence and role in the family.

A mum is living with the awful uncertainty of not knowing what tumour type her teenage daughter has despite several surgeries, ongoing treatment and two recurrences.

Laura Hobbs lost her 72-year-old dad to an aggressive brain tumour just 25 days after having symptoms the family originally thought were a reaction to the Covid vaccination.

A woman who was diagnosed with a brain tumour less than two years after losing her mum to the disease is encouraging others to live life by seizing the day.

A pregnant mum-of-three, who feared that she would never see the face of her unborn son as a brain tumour was crushing her optic nerve, is fundraising to find a cure for the disease.

A family spent the pandemic making memories with their four-year-old son who lost his life just a few months later to one of the most aggressive brain tumours his doctors had ever seen.

An adventurous couple who had just spent two months of their retirement in Australia and New Zealand returned home just ahead of the Covid pandemic to receive a shock brain tumour diagnosis.

Rhys Holmes, 31 from Newport in South Wales, spent his childhood dreaming of playing football before his young hopes were dashed when he started having symptoms of what would be diagnosed as a brain tumour.

The family of a young boy who had proton beam therapy following his brain tumour diagnosis have said that the pandemic actually helped with Noah’s recovery.