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Brain Tumour Research
Brain Tumour Research is a new initiative by a group of 14 UK brain tumour charities, including the Brain and Spine Foundation, to raise the profile and funding for brain tumour patients and improve their chances.
At the launch of Brain Tumour Research in April 2009, Mr Kevin O’Neill, Consultant Neurosurgeon, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London said:
“Brain tumours are on the increase - reportedly in the region of 2% per year - but in my unit alone we have seen the number of brain tumour cases nearly double in the last year. Brain tumours can afflict any one of us and are increasingly affecting a younger section of the population. They cause the biggest reduction in expected lifespan than any other cancer. Frustratingly malignant brain tumours have very few treatment options and we have nothing approaching a cure. Yet brain cancer research still receives less than 1% of the national spend on cancer research in this country. Without the drive and determination of charities trying to make a difference there may continue to be a lack of funding and hope. In joining forces to form the national organisation Brain Tumour Research there may now be a brighter future for all of us.”
Professor Geoff Pilkington, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Neuro-oncology, University of Portsmouth said:
“I have worked in this area for over 35 years and sadly progress in research into brain tumours has been very slow. Brain tumour research is notoriously poorly funded and often viewed very much as a poor relation to other cancers. Unfortunately it appears to be getting worse. Yet a quarter of all cancers end up in the brain. This is urgent. There desperately needs to be an injection of money to put the building blocks in place so we can save lives.”
For more information about Brain Tumour Research please contact Sue Farrington-Smith on 01296 733011.
Visit the Brain Tumour Research website at www.braintumourresearch.org
“Brain tumours are on the increase - reportedly in the region of 2% per year - but in my unit alone we have seen the number of brain tumour cases nearly double in the last year. Brain tumours can afflict any one of us and are increasingly affecting a younger section of the population. They cause the biggest reduction in expected lifespan than any other cancer. Frustratingly malignant brain tumours have very few treatment options and we have nothing approaching a cure. Yet brain cancer research still receives less than 1% of the national spend on cancer research in this country. Without the drive and determination of charities trying to make a difference there may continue to be a lack of funding and hope. In joining forces to form the national organisation Brain Tumour Research there may now be a brighter future for all of us.”
Professor Geoff Pilkington, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Neuro-oncology, University of Portsmouth said:
“I have worked in this area for over 35 years and sadly progress in research into brain tumours has been very slow. Brain tumour research is notoriously poorly funded and often viewed very much as a poor relation to other cancers. Unfortunately it appears to be getting worse. Yet a quarter of all cancers end up in the brain. This is urgent. There desperately needs to be an injection of money to put the building blocks in place so we can save lives.”
For more information about Brain Tumour Research please contact Sue Farrington-Smith on 01296 733011.
Visit the Brain Tumour Research website at www.braintumourresearch.org
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