Brain cancer funding petition backed by girl's bereaved parents
Brooke developed a droop on one side of her face in April 2019Her parents raised more than £200,000 for private treatmentThe parents of an 11-year-old girl who died with an aggressive brain tumour are backing a campaign to set aside £35m for research each year.Her parents, Dan and Lisa, raised more than £200,000 to pay for monthly trips to New York to pick up chemotherapy medication and for private treatment.
Dan said: "As a family, we believe everything we did helped Brooke. We had 11 months from when she was diagnosed to when she passed away."Angry that decades have passed and still people are dying from this disease, and yet treatment options for brain tumours aren't keeping up to date with innovations in other cancers.
In 2018, then Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed the government would double investment to £40m for research to tackle the disease.To date, it has spend £15m, according to Brain Tumour Research.
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