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Spend more money on brain tumour research

Submitted on Friday 22nd November 2013

Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Spend more money on brain tumour research

Additional Information

The facts:

More children and adults under 40 die of a brain tumour than from any other cancer

73% of brain tumour deaths occur in those under 75 compared to 47% for all other cancers

Brain tumours receive less than 1% of the national spend on cancer research

Only 18.8% of those diagnosed with a brain tumour survive beyond five years, compared with a 50% average for all cancers

Brain tumours kill more children than leukaemia or any other cancer

This petition calls on the Government to take action to:

Significantly increase the investment into brain tumour research.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

Please see: Brain Tumour Research

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