Author: The Brain Tumour Charity

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 successful lawyer credits children’s literature for helping her to rediscover a love of reading after her brain tumour diagnosis and treatment left her with severe fatigue and reduced concentration.

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.

Modern molecular profiling of medulloblastomas recently highlighted a previously unrecognised treatment benefit in a major international clinical trial.

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.

Geneticists from Trinity College Dublin have discovered how a specific genetic mutation called H3K27M causes a devastating, incurable childhood cancer, known as diffuse midline glioma (DMG), and, in lab studies working with model cell types, successfully reverse its effects to slow cancer cell growth with a targeted drug.

A dedicated dad has cycled from Land’s End to John O’Groats to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity after his daughter was diagnosed when she was studying at University.

A young woman has revealed how she turned to the party lifestyle to help deal with the emotional trauma she experienced when she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

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.

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.

A husband has shared the grief he and their two children have experienced since losing his wife to a brain tumour just three months after her diagnosis.

A new MRI technique that enables doctors to better visualise what the brain is doing could identify specific areas of a slow-growing brain tumour that may be becoming more aggressive. New findings by scientists at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam suggest that visualising the whole tumour may be critical to identifying key changes and where patients may need more active treatment.

A loving wife who lost her husband of nearly 20 years to a brain tumour has shared the memories they made during their eight years together following his diagnosis.

A grieving sister says she will spend the rest of her life raising funds to find a cure for brain tumours after her sister died from the disease just three months after her diagnosis.

If we can find a way to interrupt a cancer cell’s ability to keep dividing, we may have a key to stopping tumours growing. Researchers, Dr Wong and Dr Voon ,tells us about the discovery they made into a tumour’s ability to continuously divide.

An ambitious young woman has got back to the career she loves having been diagnosed with a brain tumour three years ago.

A daughter whose beloved dad first had symptoms on her wedding day of the incurable brain tumour which took his life has climbed Mount Snowdon for The Brain Tumour Charity.

Research we funded has added value to a clinical trial that started in 2004. Updated scientific techniques showed that some children with a medulloblastoma can safely be spared harmful treatments.

A daughter has shared how her dad positively inspired her after he was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumour a week before their joint 18th and 50th birthdays.

We hear from two clinical psychologists who are helping young people after their brain tumour treatments through our ACT NOW study.

A husband and dad-of-three who has a brain tumour turned his radiotherapy mask into a piece of art to commemorate his life changing experiences since his diagnosis.

This Volunteers’ Week, we hear from three volunteers who are giving their time to propel us closer to a cure