BCO ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2024 | CHARITY
The Brain Tumour Charity is the world’s leading brain tumour charity and the largest dedicated funder of research into brain tumours globally.
Committed to saving and improving lives, they’re moving further, faster to help every single person affected by a brain tumour. They’re set on finding new treatments, offering the highest level of support and driving urgent change. And they’re doing it right now. Because they understand that when you, or someone you love, is diagnosed with a brain tumour – a cure really can’t wait.
Their vision is for people diagnosed with a brain tumour to live longer and better lives. They’ll achieve this by accelerating cures for all brain tumours, driving the best lifelong care
and raising our global voices.
The goal is to double survival by 2030.
In line with this, the charity partner selected for the 2024 BCO Conference, held in Birmingham, is the Brain Tumour Charity.
For people with fast-growing tumours, the aim is to halve the average years of life lost to a brain tumour from 27.3 years (2015) to 13.6 years by 2030. They’ll use one-year survival rates as an early indicator of our progress. For people with slow growing tumours, they aim to determine a benchmark and baseline it, then double survival by 2030.
Ultimately, as a research-led charity, they aim to find cures for all brain tumours so that no one’s life expectancy is dictated by their tumour. The goal is to halve the harm that brain tumours have on quality of life by 2030.
For people with both fast and slow-growing tumours, their families and carers, they aim to select and baseline a quality of life measure with user groups and clinicians in 2023.