Extract from Scottish Parliament debate on Brain Tumour Awareness - Dec 7
Friday, 8 December 2017 06:25
Colin Smyth (South Scotland) (Lab):...As well as improving
diagnosis of brain tumours, there remains a need to improve our
knowledge and achievement capabilities through research, which all
speakers so far have highlighted. Across the UK, brain tumours are
the biggest cancer killers of children and adults under the age of
40, yet, in 2016, less than 2 per cent of cancer research funding
was spent researching brain tumours. Pioneering work on the subject
is taking place across the world and...Request free trial
(South Scotland)
(Lab):...As well as improving diagnosis of
brain tumours, there remains a need to improve our knowledge and
achievement capabilities through research, which all speakers so
far have highlighted. Across the UK, brain tumours are the biggest
cancer killers of children and adults under the age of 40, yet, in
2016, less than 2 per cent of cancer research funding was spent
researching brain tumours. Pioneering work on the subject is taking
place across the world and technological innovations are constantly
creating opportunities to transform how we diagnose and treat brain
tumours. That important work is being done in several Scottish
universities. Dr Nick Leslie at Heriot-Watt University is exploring
the potential uses of 3d
printing in brain tumour models; Dr Paul Brennan at the
University of Edinburgh is working to understand how brain tumours
progress and to establish why some adults take longer than others
to be diagnosed; and, at the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK centre, a
number of teams are working to better understand brain tumours and
develop potential new treatments. We must do all that we can to
ensure that that vital work has the support and funding that it
needs...
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