Father of two with inoperable tumor calls for more than 1% of budget to be spent on brain cancer | UK News

A father of two young girls with an inoperable brain tumor takes part in a campaign to get more funding for research to find a cure.

Sam Suriakumar, 35, was coming home from work on the subway in London 16 months ago when, out of the blue, he had a seizure.

He woke up in the hospital to learn the news that they had found a tumor.

“I didn’t hear the explanation, the diagnosis, where he is, which side, I just thought ‘I have a brain tumor and I’m probably not going to last the week’ and my immediate thoughts shifted. are facing my daughters, “he said.

There was no sign that the web of cancer had developed in the left side of his head, not even a headache.

But within a fortnight, he was told it was unusable.

“Everyone just lift me by each limb and get back up and I’m fighting, I’m fighting really hard right now,” he said.

Brain tumors can affect anyone at any age, but they kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer.

But Hugh Adams of the Brain Tumor Research charity says there is insufficient funding for the search for a cure.

The association wants £ 35million to be made available for research each year.

“We have seen, in a generation, the prognosis of a patient with breast cancer or leukemia reversed by investment in research and we have not seen that for patients with tumor cerebral, ”he said.

“It is clear that we need to do more, do better for those diagnosed with this devastating disease.”

The statistics are not good.

They show that 88% of people diagnosed with a brain tumor die within five years.

And they are the cause of 35% of all childhood cancer deaths, while only 1% of national cancer research funding is allocated to brain tumors.

The charity has launched a campaign called “Stop the Devastation”, which includes a short video featuring Mr.