About 250 people, including Brain Tumour Research patron Debbie McGee, joined the charity’s Walk of Hope at Derbyshire’s Chatsworth Estate on Saturday to raise funds. Some participants were families remembering loved ones lost to brain tumours.
McGee became the charity’s patron earlier this year, 10 years after her husband, magician Paul Daniels, died of a brain tumour; she said she believed he would be proud of the family supporting the cause. Helen Jones walked for her husband Toby, who died of grade four glioblastoma last July, and Harriet Wilton remembered her brother Isaac, who died of a glioblastoma nearly a year ago.
The NHS has started using a new test that can reduce the time for an accurate brain tumour diagnosis from up to eight weeks to two hours. Testing is to be piloted at five specialist centres in England, including Nottingham, building on an earlier project in Nottingham and Birmingham.
