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An update from our Policy and Campaigns team following an exciting week in Scotland.

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.

We visited Scottish Parliament during Brain Tumour Awareness Month to promote Better Safe Than Tumour – our awareness campaign!

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.

Our Manifesto urges local MSP candidates to pledge support for those affected by a brain tumour in Scotland.

Announced today, this fund will make Scotland the first country in the UK to offer cancer patients guaranteed emotional, practical and financial advice.

Cameron Miller, Head of Policy & Public Affairs, reports from the day’s proceedings

On Thursday Alexander Stewart MSP led a debate in the Scottish Parliament on Brain Tumour Awareness in Scotland, as several MSPs expressed their support for action to raise greater awareness of the disease

Our Policy & Public Affairs Manager Cameron Miller, outlines tomorrow’s MSP debate in the Scottish Parliament

The Imaging Centre of Excellence (ICE), was opened last Wednesday at the University of Glasgow, with the aim to be a global hub for precision medicine.

The new Seimens Magnetom Terra 7 Tesla MRI machine is being installed in Glasgow in March 2017.