Isla Cecil was a beautiful little girl who died in November 2012 aged 15 months of a very aggressive infantile brain tumour. The joy that she brought in her short life and the immense courage of her parents ever since is the inspiration for this potentially ambitious marathon attempt.

Isla's amazing parents have set up The Isla Cecil Brighter Future Fund (www.islasbrighterfuture.com), to raise money for pioneering research and treatment of childhood high-risk brain tumors with poor survival rates in the UK.  These include ETANTR, the type of tumour from which Isla suffered, as well as malignant glioma, brainstem glioma, high-risk medulloblastoma and ATRT. There are approximately 100 cases per year of these very aggressive tumours in the UK with a total of 10,000 estimated worldwide. The survival rates are very low, for the most part below 10-15%, a situation which the consortium believe can materially be improved by better research and coordination.

The research consortium comprises Great Ormond Street Hospital (Institute of Child Health), the Royal Marsden Hospital (Institute of Cancer Research) and Newcastle Royal Victoria Hospital (Northern Institute for Cancer Research).

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