The loss of a daughter... and the start of a mission
16,000 people each year in the UK are diagnosed with a brain tumour
20 per cent of all cancers now spread to the brain
More men under the age of 45 and women under the age of 35 die from a brain tumour than any other cancer
Brain tumours are the most common solid tumour found in children and they have overtaken leukaemia as the biggest cancer killer of children in the UK
The number of children dying from a brain tumour in 2007 was 33 per cent higher than in 2001; child deaths from leukaemia were 39 per cent lower than in 2001
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