About

	The Christopher Clarke Cancer Research Fund (CCCRF) is hoping to concentrate research on primary brain tumours as according to the Teenage Cancer Trust:
Around 150 teenagers / young people develop brain tumours each year making it the most common cancer to affect young people

• Brain Tumours are the leading cause of solid tumour cancer death in children under the age of 20, now surpassing Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL).
• They are the 2nd leading cause of death in male adults ages 20 - 29
• 5th leading cause of cancer death in female adults ages 20-25

The above facts are from: Cancer Statistics,2003. Jan/Feb 2003.Vol 53,No.1.CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. American Cancer society page 5 - 26.

Brain tumours affect people of all ages and cause more deaths among the under 40’s than any other cancer.

There is a great need for a better understanding of what causes them, how the brain reacts to them and how they behave - and an even greater need for better and more effective treatments .

The Christopher Clarke Cancer Research Fund was started in March 2006 following the loss of Chris Clarke (Clarkey). Horrified by the lack of funding for research, the fact that there has been little improvement in treatment and the prospect that it is unlikely that a cure will be found in the next ten years.

Chris’s family, with the help of friends set up the charity with the objective of raising funds for research into brain tumours in young people.

Our aim is to:

• Raise funds to secure sustained investment in scientific research into treatments and prevention of primary brain tumours in young people
• To fund publication of research. To provide up -to-date information to the families and the young people who have to cope with the consequences of primary brain tumours
• To raise public awareness of the incidence of brain tumours amongst young people, and in particular to enable people to recognise symptoms which may be indicative of this problem

The Trustees hope to establish a Research post which, it is proposed will be based at The Christie and Hope Hospitals in Manchester thus ensuring that there is research being done in the North West of England and also encouraging collaboration between centres both nationally and internationally.

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