LONDON TO BRIGHTON CYCLE 2011

Brain tumours are nasty things. Malignant primary brain tumours take more years off the average person’s life than any other cancer. They are the most significant cause of cancer death amongst men under 45 and women under 35, and approximately 400 children are diagnosed with a primary brain tumour each year.

Scientific research into brain tumours is under-funded, both in relation to the number of people affected and the life-limiting nature of malignant tumours in particular. For example, in 2007-8, the Medical Research Council (MRC)invested less than £1 million in brain tumour research, compared to £14 million in leukaemia research. Yet brain tumours claim the lives of more children, and young men and women, than leukaemia.

Brain tumour charities are trying to redress this imbalance. To support them a group of friends and I (11 of us so far) are cycling from London to Brighton raising money for Brain Tumour UK. If you would like to sponsor me please visit:

http://www.doitforcharity.com/ChrisE


Many thanks

Chris