DID YOU KNOW ... Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer?

And just 1% of the national spend on cancer research is allocated to this devastating disease.

The charity Brain Tumour Research has joined forces with the Dr Hadwen Trust to help fund a project to find out why the blood-brain barrier stops most standard cancer drugs from treating brain tumours.

I'm aiming to help their "Grand Challenge" by raising at least £1000 to help achieve their 180k target.

This means a lot to me for two reasons: the first is that a few years ago I lost a good friend who died from a brain tumour after a long struggle with the disease.  (June, this is for you.) 

The second is that the Dr Hadwen Trust has been the driving force in funding advanced scientific research methods where experimentation using animals* has been replaced with more human-relevant ones.

We all want modern science to succeed in finding cures and treatments for devastating health problems.  Yet in over 100 years of animal experiments, we still don't have a cure for many diseases. Why?

Many human diseases do not exist in animals and the way an animal's body deals with disease can be very different to the way our bodies do.  Using animals to study human conditions is not only unreliable but a terrible waste of an animal's life. 

By sponsoring me, you'll be helping to fund cutting edge, non-animal research into the blood-brain barrier.

Help me support The Grand Challenge and help fund brain tumour research - without animal experiments.

* Millions of animals are still used every year in scientific research including beagles which are used in toxicology and wound healing studies.

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