For those of you who don't know, and most of you probably won't unless you've done your research, brain cancer is one of the most underfunded and it recieves LESS THAN 1% of TOTAL cancer research funds. I said you'd have had to have done your research to know this because it's a little known fact and one that makes me very angry!
I wouldn't wish a brain tumour on my worst enemy. I saw how my mum suffered, I heard her groan in pain as the tumour pushed on her brain, I held her hair while she was on her knees with sickness from the chemo, and I tied a scarf around her head when she began to lose her hair. But, I can't help thinking that if a well known figure with power had been through this too then my mum would be alive now. The government would have poured money into research and even if that person hadn't have been saved the money donated to brain cancer charities would have been poured into research and there may be a cure, or at least a life prolonging treatment that would give people hope.
Brain cancer research is still back in the 60s. No major development has been found since then. No medicine that will give a sufferer a real chance at life. At present the average life expectancy for a GBM sufferer is 14 months. If they are lucky enough to be operated on they will get more time, but the ending will always be the same. I'll never understand how money isn't split evenly between cancers and if it weren't for independent charities like ours working to raise research funds brain tumour research would be even further behind than it already is...
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