Author: Piers Townley

The Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT) is calling for focus, prioritisation and investment in order to speed up the detection and diagnosis of the UK’s deadliest cancers.

For one week only, from midday on Tuesday 18 August, your donations can be doubled – meaning your gift will have twice the impact on our efforts to get research in the lab back on track.

As a key member of the LSCT, we met with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy Team for a virtual roundtable on Monday 6 July

The Q&A will be held in BRIAN, our online app for people affected by a brain tumour. It’s free to attend and easy to sign up.

Several high profile stories and a grandmother’s petition reaches this week’s PMQs and brain tumours are scheduled for a parliamentary debate

Today we launch our virtual gaming fundraising campaign

Accelerated by the impact of COVID-19 which has seen demand for support services soar, the merger is the latest move towards consolidation in a sector historically populated with small charities, many of them founder-led.

The ongoing pandemic has hit our community of people affected by a brain tumour diagnosis hard.

Many things are uncertain right now, but our commitment to research isn’t one of them.

The recent National Cancer Patient Experience Survey highlighted, once again, that those diagnosed with a brain tumour have one of the worst experiences of all cancer patients.

Fiona started the petition to call the Government to tackle hard to treat childhood cancers after her grandson died from a brain tumour.

We’ve a limited stock of our iconic bandanas up for grabs to repurpose into COVID-19 facemasks.

The Brain Tumour Charity is curating and facilitating a series of 60-minute webinars for researchers. The webinars feature experts in the brain tumour field speaking on a wide range of current topics.

Last Monday we met with our partners in the Less Survivable Cancers Taskforce (LSCT), in preparation for a virtual roundtable with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy team next week.

Award-winning graphic designer’s ‘100 Stories’ podcast features Hal.

Researchers are pioneering a promising use of focused ultrasound against glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour.

Researchers have developed a new ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test to diagnose brain tumours, which could reduce the need for invasive procedures.

COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis which has had a profound impact on health and care services across the UK and will continue to have an impact for the months and years to come.

The human genome contains nearly 22,000 genes and various studies have explored the nearly 2% of DNA that creates proteins. Far less is known about the remaining 98% of DNA that does not encode protein.

A new machine learning approach can classify gliomas, a common type of brain tumour, into low or high grades with almost 98% accuracy, researchers report in the journal IEEE Access.

Australia is joining the clinical trial to test a new treatment in children with brain cancer. The trial will be led by Sydney Children’s Hospital.

Around 2.4 million people in the UK are waiting for cancer screening, tests or treatment because of disruptions to the NHS, according to new analysis by Cancer Research UK.

Researcher Todd Hankinson and his team at Children’s Hospital Colorado have studied biological differences between paediatric and adult ACP tumours

Freyja, from Porthtowan, on the Cornish north coast, launched the Wholesome World App last year and in April, it gained NHS approval.