Event Arranged To Raise Awareness Of Difficulties Faced By People With Brain Tumours

Brain Tumour Research are encouraging people round the world to wear a hat with flowers next week as part of a new fund raising scheme aimed at bringing celebration, colour and excitement to the nation with a fantastic new event. The organisation aims to combine it's annual Wear a Flower week with the return of it's famous Wear a Hat Day.

Starting on Monday 15th June (coinciding with British Flowers Week), there will be a week-long celebration of all things floral, building up to a visually spectacular and brilliant fundraising occasion: Wear A Hat Day with Flowers on Friday 19th June.

With the country in the midst of the Coronavirus lock down, the organisation wants to help ease everyone's worries and try and bring some normality back to the way we live our lives, using social distancing of course.

Hobbycraft will also be getting involved once again.

Their ambassador Danny Clarke, BBC TV’s Instant Gardener (who lost his sister, Margot, to a brain tumour) is lending his generous support to our event.

Brain tumours are indiscriminate; they can affect anyone at any age. What’s more, they kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer... yet historically just 1% of the national spend on cancer research has been allocated to this devastating disease.

Brain  tumour  patients  lose  £14,783  per  year, more  than  double  the  £6,840  for  all  cancers. 

Our latest report, Exposing the financial impact of a brain tumour reveals for the first time the stark financial burden facing brain tumour patients.

Experiencing life-limiting physical and psychological symptoms, brain tumour patients face long visits to specialist hospitals, increased time at home, rising bills and costly home modifications.

What’s more: 

Brain tumour patients and their families face a £11,081 net loss of income

Brain tumour patients face additional costs of £3,702 per year

Brain tumour patients are on average £14,783 worse off per year, whereas for all cancers the average cost is £6,840 per year

Brain Tumour Statistics

The statistics we have unearthed speak for themselves. Something has to be done.

Too many people are being faced with the devastating diagnosis each year – every two hours, someone is diagnosed with a brain tumour in England

In the UK, 16,000 people each year are diagnosed with a brain tumour

Less than 20% of brain tumour patients survive beyond five years of their diagnosis, whereas 86% of breast cancer and 51% of leukaemia patients survive beyond five years

Brain tumours are the chief cause of cancer deaths in children and young people. In 2015, the number of children dying from cancer was 194, with brain tumours taking 67 young lives and leukaemia 46

Brain tumours continue to kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer

There are a number of different kinds of brain tumours which can have different symptoms. However, there are some symptoms which some sufferers can have in common with other people. These can include:

Squinting

Worsening vision

Blurred or double vision

Restricted field of vision, loss of peripheral vision, blind spots

Problems with looking upwards or controlling eye movements

Abnormal eye movements such as flickering eyes

Head tilt, usually because the patient is turning to see things out of the corner of their eye rather than looking straight at them

Brief loss, blurring or “greying out” of vision, sometimes triggered by coughing, sneezing or bending down

As the tumour grows, it may cause the eyeball to bulge forwards. This is known as proptosis.

If you're interested in taking part in this event an would like more information, please visit https:

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