Cancer: £1m funding for Wales’ first brain tumour hub

Dr Lee Campbell, head of research at Cancer Research Wales, said funding bodies had “woken up” to the fact that, historically, less than 2% of all money spent on research had gone into brain tumours

He added: “Sadly Wales has missed out on this funding, despite having a number of large clinical and scientific research groups active in this area and we really wanted to address this inequity of research investment.

“Numerous studies have shown the more research intensive your local health body is, the better outcomes are for patients living in that area.”

He said the money would focus on innovative research and connecting Wales with other centres across the UK and internationally.

“We also want to invest in travel fellowships where we can send clinicians to other countries to learn the very latest techniques in neurosurgery and radiotherapy and bring these treatments ack to Wales so that Welsh patients are among the first to benefit from these breakthroughs in brain tumour research.”