House of Commons – May 8, 2025 – c.894.1.4
Brain Tumours: Research and Treatment
Result
✅ Motion approved without vote.
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Motion
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I beg to move, That this House notes that Brain Tumour Awareness Month took place in March;
further notes that there has been no progress in NHS treatment of brain tumours in 20 years and that they are the biggest cancer killer of people under the age of 40;
calls on the Government to demand that the National Institute for Health and Care Research take action to spend the £40 million provided by the Government for brain tumour research in 2018 for innovative and meaningful drug trials, following the death of the late Baroness Tessa Jowell;
and further calls on the Government to encourage the pharmaceutical industry to undertake research into the repurposing of drugs for brain tumours and to require the NHS repurposing service to consider the repurposing of drugs for brain tumours.
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