{"id":413368,"date":"2025-09-10T14:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413368\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:43:19","slug":"oxfordshire-mums-campaign-calls-for-more-brain-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/413368\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxfordshire mum&#8217;s campaign calls for more brain cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Maynard said the group had been set up after she had attended an all-party parliamentary group, where she had heard stories from people with brain cancer or those who had lost loved ones to the disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said in 2015\/2016, 120,000 people signed a petition and the government at the time &#8220;was very supportive&#8221; of it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But has that change happened? No, and the funding hasn&#8217;t materialised yet,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There are a lot of people who are deeply frustrated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mrs Maynard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn9v4edv0pdo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was diagnosed with glioblastoma<\/a> \u2013 one of the hardest brain tumours to treat.  The survival rate remains stubbornly low and the standard treatment in the UK has not changed in decades.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Much of that is due to a lack of research, which Mrs Maynard and her brother, Witney MP Charlie Maynard, are trying to change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has been to see research at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn9v4edv0pdo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Centre for Medicines Discovery at Oxford University.<\/a> and said she was &#8220;hopeful&#8221; there would be some significant new treatments in the next five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mrs Maynard said the group had been set up after she had attended an all-party parliamentary group, where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-413368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115180536690116427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}