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Jo and David Proctor live in Lincolnshire. In October 2025, Jo was diagnosed with glioblastoma. Since then, she has undergone six weeks of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, followed by six rounds of chemotherapy, each involving five days of treatment and 23 days of rest. Jo has now reached the end of a three-month treatment break and is awaiting the results of her latest MRI ...


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Pictured left to right: Michele Afif, CEO, The Brain Tumour Charity; Will Jones, CEO, brainstrust; Archie Goodburn; Dan Knowles, CEO,Brain Tumour Research.

Today belongs to Archie Goodburn.

Archie is a 25-year-old swimmer living with inoperable brain cancer. Over the past year he has done something that takes great courage: sp...


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Sometimes we have a lot on our minds, and sometimes there’s a lot we’d like to say, but we don’t quite know how to say it. Writing things down is a popular and proven technique for bringing order to our thoughts and channelling some of our emotions.

The challenge, though, is how to find both the time – and also, how to give ourselves permission – to write, when...


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Jack Jarvis has reached two huge milestones on his Beijing2London challenge, passing £10,000 raised for brainstrust and running more than 2,000km on his journey home.

Jack is attempting to run an extraordinary 13,000km from Beijing to London, raising money and awareness for brainstrust along the way.

And he’s mak...


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By Helen Bulbeck, Director of Services and Policy, brainstrust. EANO education day, Thursday 24 September.

These notes cover the EANO Educational Day only, not the main congress programme that followed.

Why the education day matters

The


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