brain tumours

Drugs for blood cancer could make radiotherapy on brain tumours more effective

Drugs developed to fight blood and other cancers could also help improve the efficiency of radiotherapy in the most commonly diagnosed low-grade brain tumour in adults, a new study has found.

Meningioma account for approximately 36% of all primary brain tumours. The majority are successfully treated by surgery, but some which can’t easily be accessed need to be treated with...

Devon woman pushes through the pain to fund vital research into brain tumours

For Dawn Michelin, the fight against brain tumours is personal, and no ordinary fundraising challenge would do.

Dawn, from Devon, has set herself an epic walking target, after losing her father and her best friend to the illness.

Dawn, landlord of the Horse and Groom in Bittaford, has tasked herself with walking an incredible 3.5 million steps in 2020 – further than the...

Plymouth supports Wear a Hat Day

Plymouth University, recently chosen by charity Brain Tumour Research to be its latest research Centre of Excellence, is going all out to support the charity’s Wear A Hat fundraising and awareness day - today.

Wear a Hat Day is charity Brain Tumour Research’s key awareness and fundraising day, and it is the UK’s premier brain tumour awareness event. All round the country thousands of...