£1.5 million to fight brain tumours

Brain tumours kill more people under the age of 40 than any other cancer. The survival rates are very low, with less than 20% of those diagnosed surviving beyond five years, compared to 50% of all other cancers.

Barts Charity's grant of £1.5 million will help researchers get closer to a cure by extending their successful lab-based research into a clinical setting.

Hear from the grant recipients in this video; brain tumour expert Silvia Marino, Professor of Neuropathology at Queen Mary University of London and Edward McKintosh, Consultant Neurosurgeon at Barts Health NHS Trust