Surgeons operate on a brain tumour
And brain tumours have overtaken leukaemia as the biggest cancer killer of children in the UK, with the number of children dying from a brain tumour in 2007, up 33% on 2001.
While overall mortality rates from cancer are falling despite an actual rise in cases, survival rates for brain tumour patients are getting worse.
Brain tumours cannot be prevented because their cause is still unknown, medical experts say, explaining that research is being "forgotten" and desperately underfunded. There has been concern in recent years that the use of mobile phones might be contributing to illness, but subsequent studies have ruled it out.
"What is happening is that more tumours are being diagnosed, but the survival rate is staying the same," a BTR spokeswoman told Sky News Online.
Brain tumour research currently receives less than 1% of all cancer research spent in the UK. That works out annually at £3m, out of a total £426m.
Now, a new research laboratory - funded entirely by individual donations - is being opened at London's Charing Cross Hospital with the hope of finding ways to develop better treatment for brain tumours.
"The opening of the laboratory is an important first step, but is just a drop in the ocean of what is needed," said BTR chairman, Wendy Fulcher.
Consultant Neurosurgeon and lecturer and Imperial College Kevin O'Neill said: "Brain tumours can afflict anyone of us, increasingly the younger section of the population which has led to brain tumours causing the biggest reduction in expected lifespan than any other cancer.
"They can't be prevented or screened for as we don't know the cause. It is frustrating that treatment options are so limited. More research is desperately needed, but we are struggling to get funds."
"There has been concern in recent years that the use of mobile phones might be contributing to illness, but subsequent studies have ruled it out."
Of course the studies have ruled it out! They were paid (or told they would not be paid) to rule it out! Just as always.
We get told what to think and believe by the psychopaths making the rules. After all, they need to get rid of the "useless feeders."