To raise awareness of the issues facing the brain tumour community in order to improve research, diagnosis, information, support, treatment and care outcomes.
1. Brain Tumour Research - written evidence
22/05/2019 - Inquiry: Consumers’ Access to Financial Services - Treasury Committee
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2. Brain Tumour Research - written evidence
12/03/2019 - Inquiry: Drugs policy: medicinal cannabis - Health and Social Care Committee
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Found: evidence - Brain Tumour Research DMC0058 Written evidence from Brain Tumour Research About Brain Tumour
3. Cancer treatment
18/04/2018 - Parliamentary Research
Found: Jowell in her campaign to help people with brain tumours to live better lives for longer; recognises
4. Brain tumour research: task and finish working group report
22/02/2018 - Department of Health and Social Care
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5. BRAIN TUMOUR RESEARCH WEAR A HAT DAY
26/03/2019 - Early Day Motions
Found: is the UK's biggest brain tumour research fundraising event; congratulates Brain Tumour Research and
1. Health: Brain Tumours
19/01/2021 - Lords Chamber
1: report of the chair of the all-party group on brain tumours, which says that there is greater need because - Speech Link
2: is arguable that, of all the human organs, the brain is the main. People from the black community are - Speech Link
3: Lords, £40 million was announced in May 2018 for brain tumour research. To date, £9.3 million has been - Speech Link
4: diagnosed with a germinoma, which is a rare form of brain tumour. He was referred for proton-beam therapy - Speech Link
5: that to improve the outcome for patients with brain tumours, we need a strategy that addresses the clinical - Speech Link
6: strategy is in place by working with the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission, to which the department, the NIHR - Speech Link
7: new discoveries the outlook for patients with brain tumours is bleak. Given that many sufferers are in their - Speech Link
2. Brain Tumour Research
19/11/2020 - Lords Chamber
1: million over five years for brain tumour research as part of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission, through - Speech Link
2: accuracy has been rolled out and new specialist brain cancer centres have been set up across the NHS. - Speech Link
3: national spend on cancer research is devoted to brain tumour research. Let us consider the collaborative - Speech Link
4: powerful opportunity for us to tackle cancers. Brain cancers are particularly difficult to tackle, especially - Speech Link
5: to change the system so that if a site-specific brain tumour grant is deemed fundable by a panel, it will - Speech Link
3. Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
13/05/2019 - Commons Chamber
1: House on the progress we have made in tackling brain cancer, including on a new innovation that is now - Speech Link
4. Cancer Treatment
19/04/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: Jowell in her campaign to help people with brain tumours to live better lives for longer; recognises - Speech Link
2: Jowell in her campaign to help people with brain tumours to live better lives for longer; recognises - Speech Link
5. Paediatric Cancers of the Central Nervous System
22/10/2018 - Commons Chamber
1: past 50 years, but the same cannot be said for brain tumours. Many charities and research groups are working - Speech Link
2: spine, with seeds of the cancer also found in his brain. In the majority of cases, AT/RT is associated with - Speech Link
3: the past 12 months has tripled its funding for brain cancer research, understanding that it has been - Speech Link
4: available for childhood cancers in the brain or spine tumours range from neurosurgery to radiotherapy - Speech Link
5: Tessa Jowell, who led a valiant campaign against brain cancer. I welcome the Government’s response to her - Speech Link
6. Childhood Cancers: Research
07/12/2020 - Westminster Hall
1: Govan, who lost her grandson Logan to a type of brain cancer called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, - Speech Link
2: we have heard, this is an inoperable brain tumour, inside the brain stem, and the prognosis is a life expectancy - Speech Link
3: had DIPG and a stage 4 brain tumour. DIPG is a highly malignant childhood brain cancer that disables the - Speech Link
4: been. I remember working with the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission. It was a privilege to work with - Speech Link
5: are tumours that are highly aggressive and difficult to treat, found at the base of the brain. But Fiona - Speech Link
7. Healthcare: Brain Tumours
24/10/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: and psychosocial care for people living with a brain tumour, and (2) to provide support for their carers - Speech Link
2: remember both patients and carers. Living with a brain tumour often means coping with life-changing symptoms - Speech Link
3: Jowell Brain Cancer Mission to ensure that we improve pathways for those with very challenging brain tumour - Speech Link
4: declare an interest as a patron of the Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission. The noble Baroness, Lady Wheeler - Speech Link
5: must improve outcomes for those diagnosed with brain cancer, and one of the ways of doing so will be - Speech Link
8. Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma
14/11/2017 - Commons Chamber
1: intrinsic pontine glioma, a rare form of childhood brain tumour.I applied for this debate to raise - Speech Link
2: families.When it comes to treating the tumours, patients are usually offered courses of radiotherapy - Speech Link
9. Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission
13/05/2019 - Lords Chamber
1: Social Care in the other place on the Tessa Jowell brain cancer mission. The Statement is as follows:“Mr - Speech Link
10. Brain Tumours
18/04/2016 - Westminster Hall
1: 105560 relating to funding for research into brain tumours.It is a great pleasure to be here under - Speech Link
2: be alert to, but the only real way to diagnose a brain tumour is with a scan. Again, we heard from many - Speech Link
Registered Contact:
Derek Thomas MP, House of Commons, London, SW1A 0AA. Tel: 020 7219 4435.
Email: derek.thomas.mp@parliament.uk
Public Enquiry Point:
Sue Farrington Smith, Brain Tumour Research, Suite 3, Shenley Pavilions, Chalkdell Drive, Shenley Wood, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire MK5 6LB . Tel: 01908 867 200
Email: sue@braintumourresearch.org
Secretariat:
Brain Tumour Research acts as the group's secretariat. https://www.braintumourresearch.org/
Group's Website:
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