Floyd is the healthcare engagement manager at TBTC, and adult nurse in oncology and lecturer by background.
- Brain tumours are the biggest cancer killer of under-40s.
- Over 12,000 people are diagnosed each year with a primary brain tumour, including 500 children and young people.
- Over 5,300 people lose their lives to a brain tumour each year.
- An estimated 88,000 people live with a brain tumour in the UK currently.
- Although brain tumours account for less than 2% of all cancers, they account for the most years life lost.
- Just 12% of adults surviving for five years after diagnosis – a reduction of approximately 27 years from life expectancy, the highest of any cancer.
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