friends, It’s not good;
in Australia, brain cancer kills more people under 40 than any other type of cancer.
Everybody thinks that it’s super rare but in fact, someone in Australia gets a diagnosis every 5 hours :(
It claims more lives than our roads, and kills more children than any other type of illness.
80% of patients diagnosed with brain cancer die within 5 years, some just a few months after diagnosis.
The field of brain cancer research has been chronically underfunded for over 3 decades, so survival rates have barely moved in that time.
And despite all of that, it receives less than 5% of total cancer research funding.