IF ONLY… brain tumour research could be funded in the same way as
leukaemia and other cancers

Help Ellie get into the charts and raise funds for childhood brain tumour research Released on 5th July is a wonderful tribute to Ellie Othick-Bowmaker who died on Valentine's Day 2010 aged just 14.  Whilst battling against 2 brain tumours she managed to help raise over £25,000 for charities, including over £5,000 for Ali's Dream through the sale of Butterfly's Wings a CD she recorded with her song- writer uncle, which she devoted to Ali's Dream (www.alisdream.org.uk) to raise funds for childhood brain tumour research.  Her bravery inspired the staff and students at Scalby School to record the song Over The Rainbow/Wonderful World, backed by a beautiful tribute video which you can see on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQ5eZj5Pec.  Ellie's mumHeather Othick has established Ellie's Fund (www.elliesfund.com) which operates under the umbrella of Ali's Dream - a founding member of Brain Tumour Research. Please buy the song which is available to download from Amazon and ITunes - it costs just 79p with 52p going to Ellie's Fund and Ali's Dream - if over 4,000 copies are sold it will get into the Top 40 - a fantastic boost for brain tumour awareness. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Somewhere-Over-Rainbow- Wonderful-World/dp/B003NTMZDA/ref=pd_ts-dm-tr-39?ie =UTF8&s=dmusic http://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/somwhere-over-the-rainbow/ id374234255?i=374234268 Please, please help us get Ellie into the charts.		Brave Josie Phillips sets sail around Britain with a brain tumour Josie, a 27 year old doctor at Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital with a malignant brain tumour sets sail on 15 May from Ipswich in Suffolk, She has set herself a challenge with three primary objectives: sail anti-clockwise around the coast of Britain, raise awareness of brain tumours and, at the same time, collect around £20,000 for Brain Tumour Research. The trip will take Josie and her husband four months and they will cover around 2,000 miles. Read more... To support Josie please visit her Just Giving page   To see Josie's interview with ITV Anglia click here

Tom's Marathon Horse Challenge Tom Gill fulfilled his dream to beat a horse by taking part in the Man vs Horse marathon which took place in Wales on 12 June, raising over £2,000 for Brain Tumour Research in the process.  He completed the 22 mile course, which was over rough terrain with an ascent of 3,000 feet, in 4 hours and 12 minutes, beating is target of under 5 hours comfortably.  He also beat seven horses which pulled out and two further horses on merit.  Tom said "this was the most wonderful thing I've ever done. I am so proud that I did the Man vs Horse Marathon in memory of my cousin James, who was a teenager when he died of a brain tumour.  To achieve something like this was absolutely mind-blowing". Read more....    To support Tom please visit his Just Giving page		Henry cycles to Oz for Brain Tumour Research Henry Brydon has taken on the challenge of a life-time. He set out in April 2010 to cycle from his home town of Shrewsbury to Sydney in Australia.  His trip of 25,000 kilometres will take him through 25 countries over the course of the next 18 months and he is hoping to raise around £25,000 for Brain Tumour Research.  Henry was inspired to undertake this huge fundraising adventure by his brother who was diagnosed with a brain tumour in 2003.  Happily, Jack is now healthy and doing well, but Henry wants to raise desperately needed funds for other brain tumour patients less fortunate than his brother.  Read Henry's story... Henry reaches Sarajevo, Bosnia - read more Click here for Henry's blog To support Henry please visit his Just Giving page

Heroes wanted to be in at the beginning of this initial initiative and make a life-changing difference.
In the UK more children and people under the age of 40 die of a brain tumour than any other cancer – yet brain tumour research is woefully under-funded!

We aim to change that and bring better hope and care to thousands of brain tumour patients and their families.  We hope that visitors to this site will champion our cause and help us raise at least £7million per year to fund world class brain tumour research programmes and projects at UK universities where brain tumour research has already been established.

When Gary Lineker got behind leukaemia research in the late 80’s it changed the course of that charity and the funds that went into specific research.  The charity Leukaemia Research now raises £23m per year and supports doctors and scientists in hospitals and academic institutions throughout the UK working on a wide range of projects from basic laboratory research through to clinical trials in patients.  Thanks to the fundraising efforts of Leukaemia Research and other charities, five year survival for leukaemia is now 80% compared to 20% thirty years ago.

For brain cancer patients, five year survival is just 14%.  Please help us change this shocking statistic.

Brain tumours are indiscriminate in the people they affect:  young or old, male or female, with no regard to race.  The prognosis is dependent on the type of tumour and its location in the brain; even a benign brain tumour can be life threatening.  What’s more a benign tumour may become cancerous over time.  Advances in surgery can delay the inevitable, but can leave debilitating side effects.  Radiation therapy and some drugs can prolong life, but as yet there is no cure.  To date, we don’t fully understand the behaviour let alone the cause.

A significant investment into basic laboratory research could start to change this.







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