Families affected by glioblastoma – the deadliest of all adult brain tumours – are supporting our appeal to raise vital funds to open a new Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence at the University of Nottingham.
Linda Peel, a mum from Leicestershire, lost her son Andi to this aggressive cancer. He was just 30 when he received a diagnosis after struggling with severe headaches.
Linda, who set up Andi's Army in his memory, said: “Andi was really fit and was always at the gym. He loved cars and music, and he had a lovely house. He had everything going for him. After watching my son fight a battle he could never win for nearly three years, finding a cure to this devastating disease is so important to me. I am urging everyone to please help support the Nottingham appeal. I cannot stress enough how important it is to fund research into glioblastoma.”
Andi
Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer. Despite this appalling fact, just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease since records began in 2002.
A £2.6 million investment from Brain Tumour Research will enable scientists at The University of Nottingham to push the boundaries of medical technology in a world-first study that aims to predict the earliest signs of brain cancer recurrence. They have ambitious goals to integrate artificial intelligence with next generation genomic techniques and brain scanning. This approach will not only predict the earliest signs of recurrence of this aggressive cancer but will also predict effective personalised treatments for patients.
Grace
Vanessa Kelly is also welcoming our new Centre. She lost her 12-year-old daughter Grace to glioblastoma in 2022.
Vanessa said: “This Centre will be fantastic because it means there will be somewhere dedicated to researching glioblastoma. At the moment, there aren’t many treatments available so this will give anyone who is diagnosed in the future a fighting chance that there will be something new out there to tackle glioblastoma. I just wish there was something more that could have been done for Grace.”
Your donation will help fund this important work and contribute to finding a cure so that more young people can have a future.
Please give what you can. Together we will find a cure.
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