Brain tumours are still the biggest and growing cancer killer of young people and adults under the age of 40, why then is it so underfunded?

• Many people with a brain tumour are too ill to be able to fundraise and sadly often don’t live to tell their story.

• For many it is too painful a memory, rather than a survivor story to keep repeating why they are fundraising.

• Lack of awareness means that brain tumours receive less public support than other cancers, such as breast cancer and leukaemia.

• Discovery science does not receive enough investment and it is down to charities like ours to take the initial risk, so researchers can prove their theories and go on to access further funding from other sources such as the Government’s Medical Research Council (MRC) and charities such as Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

• Research is also underfunded partly due to the way that funding is awarded. Brain tumour researchers compete with other disease areas which are better-funded, and therefore more advanced, less risky and often have other disease experts sitting on the decision making panel so these areas more often receive the awards and the cycle continues.

  
  By raising the profile of brain tumours, we can inspire more people to fundraise and donate to research to find a cure.