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Jacob post operation

By stew on 4th February 2015 in News

The surgery over, the biopsy was sent off for more investigation, we would now have to wait a week to find out what tumour Jacob has.

The rest of the tumour is too dangerous to remove due to the location in Jacob’s brain. (September 2014)

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Jacob endured a 10 hour operation on his 10th Birthday

Jacob sits up on the road to recovery

Our little super hero Jacob is now selling aprons to raise money for the charities that have helped us since his diagnosis, and to set up a 'fighting fund' for Jacob so we can look at other treatment options elsewhere to help him.

We need to raise national awareness of the common signs and symptoms of a brain tumour in children and young people by equipping parents, the public and healthcare professionals with information they need. This is achieved through the distribution of symptom cards and posters to raise awareness of symptoms, and the promotion of a clinical guideline and training module for health professionals.

Every day 25 people are diagnosed with a brain tumour - that's over 9,300 people every year. Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of the under 40s, including children. Survival rates have not improved over the last 40 years - just 19% of people survive for 5 years or more.