Sally and Andrew hall want the government to treat brain tumour research as a priority.
The parents of a five-year-old boy who died with an aggressive brain tumour say lives could have been saved if the government had followed through on its pledge to spend £40m on research.He was treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy for a year, but died in 2014 from the neuro-toxicity side effects of the treatment.After his death, his family set up the Blue Skye Thinking charity which has raised £500,000 for research into new treatments.
Ms Hall added: "We feel like they have broken their promise to all of the people who are facing a brain tumour now, and those that have yet to face one… but [they] can fix it." Hugh Adams of Brain Tumour Research said: "It is very difficult to say, if we had funded 50% of them, that that would have made a difference in terms of lives saved.
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