Our lives changed unimaginably at the end February this year, 2016.
Elizabeth, dearly loved wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt, godmother and friend, aged only 66 years old and still working hard was diagnosed with a Primary Brian Tumour Glioblastoma Multiforme‎ stage 4 (GMB). 

Elizabeth was a RGN nurse who spent the last 30 years focused on care of the elderly.  She absolutely knew what her diagnosis meant and her concern was only for those she loved.

On receiving her diagnosis, the seriousness of her illness was painfully obvious.   Elizabeth had as much of the tumour as possible removed by a team at St Georges Tooting, giving us valuable time and after some rest bite received a short course of radiotherapy, chemotherapy was not an option.

Elizabeth never, not once, complained about her prognosis.

After seven months she was finally at peace.  And those she left behind heartbroken but forever in awe of her strength and overwhelmed by the love shown by Family, Friends, and Colleagues near and far. 

Every day 29 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour - that's over 10,600 people every year. Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of the under 40s, including children. Survival rates have not improved over the last 40 years - just 19% of people survive for five years or more. The majority passing away within the year.

The Brain Tumour Charity is at the forefront of the fight to defeat brain tumours, making a difference every day to the lives of people with a brain tumour and their families. We fund pioneering research to increase survival, raise awareness of the symptoms and effects of brain tumours
and provide support for everyone affected to improve quality of life.

Our vision is for a world where brain tumours are defeated. We have two clear and ambitious goals - to double survival within 10 years and halve the harm that brain tumours have on quality of life. We are committed to having the greatest possible impact for every person affected by a brain tumour, to defending the most amazing part of the human body, so that getting the diagnosis of a brain tumour no longer means a death sentence.