Author: Glenn Saitch
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Your radiotherapy questions answered
We’ve collected all the answers from our recent virtual radiotherapy Q&A with expert medical professionals from Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Launching our Improving Brain Tumour Care surveys
Share your experiences and help create change in the treatment and care received by people living with a brain tumour diagnosis.
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“Cancer is always the third person in our relationship, but I’ve never been happier!”
Our future may be uncertain but my First Dates love has taught me to live life to the full.
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“Mum died from a brain tumour three hours before my wedding”
Becky Best had died from brain cancer at the age of 56, just three months after being diagnosed, after her daughter’s wedding was bought forward in the hope she’d be able to attend.
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“Doctors dismissed my symptoms as a cheese allergy!”
Desperately taping her eye open, Allana Prosser was determined to prove doctors wrong and see out of her right eye again after a devastating operation to remove a deadly brain tumour – months after it was misdiagnosed as a cheese allergy.
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“I had a stroke at 11 and doctors told my parents to take me home and wait for ‘the big one’!”
Parents were told to take their daughter home to die when she had a stroke at 11, but now she’s a thriving 18-year-old after they battled to find a treatment to save her.
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New Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce report released today
Brain tumours among diseases that miss out on research funding, says our joint charity report
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Launching our Snapchat symptom awareness campaign
The launch aims to reach over a million teenagers through the innovative social App.
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“I was convinced no one would be interested in me as soon as I told them I had a brain tumour.”
Chelsea Yeomans feared she would never find love after being diagnosed with a brain tumour but now she’s marrying the man of her dreams.
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New figures show improvement in brain tumour survival
Survival after a high-grade brain tumour diagnosis is slowly improving according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics.
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Repurposing a multiple sclerosis drug to treat glioblastomas
Researchers at The University of California, San Diego, have found that a drug called teriflunomide has the ability to boost the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs to treat glioblastomas.
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How fatigue can affect you and tips for coping with fatigue
Fatigue is the most common side-effect of living with a brain tumour. Members of our community have kindly told their stories to help you understand your fatigue better.
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Emma M’s story
Emma describes how the Young Adults Service helped her cope with her brain tumour diagnosis and why she decided to join our Young Ambassadors programme.
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Our benefits clinic is transforming
From 11 July we’ll be expanding our benefits advice service to offer appointments two days every week, allowing us to support twice as many people.