Double First for Cambridge & BTUK

HAPPY Birthdays all round to the Norwich and Cambridge Brain Tumour UK Support groups. Cambridge is celebrating its second birthday and Norwich was a year old in June 2008. Cambridge Patients meet on the last Tuesday of the month, 2.30 till 4.30 p.m. at The Wallace Centre , 7 Red Cross Lane, Cambridge. Norwich group meets on the first Wednesday of the month at The Big C Cancer Centre, Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. Call Ella for details 01787 374084.

And the first regional Brain Tumour UK  day conference for patients, carers and families took place in Cambridge on October 20th last year (2007).

This was the first ever brain tumour patients’ conference held in East Anglia, and the first regional conference in the UK organised by Brain Tumour UK. Almost seventy people attended to meet together and to listen to leading consultants from Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, who came along to give talks and answer questions about the complexities of brain tumour treatments. 

It was part of BTUK's tenth birthday celebrations, and they have been working hard to develop patient support groups in Cambridge and Norwich. A new group has been set up in Shrewsbury and Birmingham will soon have a BTUK Patients Support Group too - check the Brain Tumour UK website for details.

The Cambridge conference was organised by Ella Pybus, Meningioma UK, and trustee of Brain Tumour UK.  Ella who lives in Suffolk says, ‘With the help of Brain Tumour UK, I am determined to extend support to people diagnosed with this rare and hard-to-treat disease. If you want to help us, contact me or Brain Tumour UK.’