Petition the Prime Minister for More Brain Tumour Research
Please read, and if you’re a British citizen and agree with it, sign, Dianne Jones’ petition to Downing Street pleading for support for further and extended research into brain tumours. Click here to read and sign the petition.
The petition reads:
There needs to be more research undertaken into investigating the aetiology and treatment of brain tumours, particularly high grade tumours.There are a large number of types of cancers and funding needs to be equitable. However the morbidity and mortality needs to be taken into consideration when funding is allocated. In areas where a lot of money has been spent- eg Leukaemia the prognosis and outcomes have improved over the last two decades. On the other hand with brain tumours this does not appear to be the case. Facts: * More children die from a brain tumour than any other cancer * 3,400 people lose their lives to a brain tumour each year * On average 75% of all childhood cancer patients in Britain survive five years, only 65% of children diagnosed with a high grade brain tumour live for longer than this * In adults, with a malignant brain tumour, only 14% living longer than 5 years * 40% of all cancer deaths in children are from a brain tumour * The number of people dying from a brain tumour has increased – incidence increases by approximately 2% per year * On average it takes longer to diagnose a child with a brain tumour in the UK than in North America. Please support brain tumour research.
The situation with brain tumours and research is this: the problems to be solved, especially where GBM IV is concerned, are perhaps the most complex ever faced by cancer researchers and scientists. Worldwide, comparatively little research is actually taking place month by month compared to other, more widely-publicised cancers. So whilst the battle against brain tumour is being won, it is being won by inches over a terribly long period of time, and in that time, people are dying, we believe unnecessarily, and those that survive are suffering after-effects of their illness and treatment that are far greater than can be acceptable.
Because so little research is taking place, increasing the amount of that research can create a step-change in the rate of useful treatment discovery and testing. For this reason, it is vitally important that charities such as ourselves, joint campaigns such as Brain Tumour Research, and petitions such as this one receive every ounce of support you can possibly give.
August 13, 2009
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