Two leading cancer charities are working to establish a research centre in Scotland to help find a cure for the most aggressive form of brain cancer. Brain Tumour Research and Beatson Cancer Charity plan to open the Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence, in a unique collaboration based at laboratories at the universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. World-leading brain cancer experts will work to find a cure for glioblastoma (GBM), a highly aggressive brain tumour with a devastatingly short average survival time of 12-18 months.
READ MORE: Family raise £190k for charity after death of boy, five, from brain tumour BBC's Glenn Campbell reveals incurable brain cancer diagnosis Brain tumour diagnoses rise by 30%: Seven symptoms to look for The announcement was welcomed by Antiques Roadshow expert and patron of Brain Tumour Research, Theo Burrell, who was diagnosed with a GBM in June 2022 after suffering from symptoms for six months. Ms Burrell, 37, who underwent life-extending surgery, followed by radiotherapy and chemotherapy, said: “This announcement is great news for brain tumour patients like me in Scotland. "Although I continue to make the best of each day, my tumour will return, and it will kill me.
"My care has been excellent and new advances in science have helped me so far. However, only by funding research into brain cancer can we get closer to a life-saving cure.” Claire Cordiner, from Edinburgh, has lost four members of her family to brain tumours, thr.