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The Brain Tumour Charity and Meningioma UK are to merge
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.
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Covid-19: How has it impacted our community and what our support services are doing to help
The ongoing pandemic has hit our community of people affected by a brain tumour diagnosis hard.
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Announcing our new multi-million pound investment into research
Many things are uncertain right now, but our commitment to research isn’t one of them.
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Improving patient experience is our priority
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.
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Grandmother’s petition for research reaches milestone 100,000
Fiona started the petition to call the Government to tackle hard to treat childhood cancers after her grandson died from a brain tumour.
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Get your free bandana on…but not as you know it
We’ve a limited stock of our iconic bandanas up for grabs to repurpose into COVID-19 facemasks.
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Our free research webinars bring the research community together in lockdown.
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.
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Preparing for the roundtable with the Scottish Government’s Cancer Policy Team
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.
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Listen to our High Profile Supporter Hal Cruttenden’s podcast
Award-winning graphic designer’s ‘100 Stories’ podcast features Hal.
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Focused ultrasound shows early promise in glioblastoma brain tumours
Researchers are pioneering a promising use of focused ultrasound against glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumour.
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Announcing our partnership with Public Health England
This pioneering analytical partnership with Public Health England’s National Disease Registration Service will lead to us collaborating much more closely, in order to improve the availability of brain tumour information for the benefit of our community.
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Researchers develop a new ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test to accurately diagnose certain types of primary brain tumour
Researchers have developed a new ‘liquid biopsy’ blood test to diagnose brain tumours, which could reduce the need for invasive procedures.
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Our support for the #OneCancerVoice 12-point plan for restoring cancer services
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.
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Researchers identify genes that can drive development of brain tumours
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.
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Artificial Intelligence improves Brain tumour diagnosis
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.
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Advice for employees returning to work
Our Head of Talent, Laura Smith, shares her thoughts on the daunting prospect of returning to work after the covid-19 pandemic.
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The Brain Tumour Charity responds to the surge in demand for our support services
The demand for support services has increased during the Coronavirus crisis, throwing into stark contrast the need for support for so many people facing a brain tumour diagnosis and treatment.
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Top tips for carers
To celebrate Carers Week, Sara Challice, who cared for her husband Neal for 13 years after his brain tumour diagnosis, shares her top tips to help carers look after their own wellbeing.
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Six things you didn’t know BRIAN could help you with
With BRIAN you can track your brain tumour experience and donate your data to help accelerate a cure. But did you know BRIAN can support you in many other ways too?
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Australia to begin ground-breaking trial in children with brain cancer
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.
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More than two million in backlog for cancer care
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.
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The voices of volunteers supporting us through a pandemic
While coronavirus (COVID-19) has brought a lot of society to a standstill, we know that for those diagnosed with a brain tumour – things aren’t on pause.
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An update on our research into children’s brain tumours
Researcher Todd Hankinson and his team at Children’s Hospital Colorado have studied biological differences between paediatric and adult ACP tumours
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Wellbeing App inspired by founder’s own brain tumour diagnosis gets healthcare approval
Freyja, from Porthtowan, on the Cornish north coast, launched the Wholesome World App last year and in April, it gained NHS approval.