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▸ Signs & symptoms
- Signs & symptoms
- Talking to your doctor
- ▸ Child symptoms
  Child symptoms
  
  Headaches
  
  Nausea and vomiting
  
  Changes in vision
  
  Balance problems
  
  Seizures
  
  Behaviour changes
  
  Abnormal head position
  
  Delayed puberty
  
  Abnormal growth
  
  Excessive thirst
  
  Reduced consciousness
  
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- ▸ Adult symptoms
  Adult symptoms
  
  Headaches
  
  Changes in vision
  
  Seizures
  
  Nausea and dizziness
  
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- Symptoms by location
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▸ Diagnosis & treatment
- Diagnosis & treatment
- Neurological examination
- ▸ Diagnosing brain tumours
  Diagnosing brain tumours
  
  Diagnostic scans
  
  Diagnostic scans for children
  
  Eye tests
  
  Biopsy
  
  Biomarkers
  
  How brain tumours are graded
  
  Brain tumour biology
  
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- What to do after diagnosis
- ▸ Child brain tumour types
  Child brain tumour types
  
  Medulloblastoma
  
  DIPG
  
  Ependymoma
  
  Craniopharyngioma
  
  Embryonal tumours
  
  Pineoblastoma
  
  Brainstem glioma
  
  Choroid plexus carcinoma
  
  Germ cell tumour
  
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- ▸ Adult brain tumour types
  Adult brain tumour types
  
  Glioblastoma
  
  Astrocytoma
  
  Acoustic neuroma
  
  Pituitary adenoma
  
  Meningioma
  
  Oligodendroglioma
  
  Haemangioblastoma
  
  CNS lymphoma
  
  Unspecified glioma
  
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- ▸ Treating brain tumours
  Treating brain tumours
  
  Treatments for children
  
  Treatments for adults
  
  Complementary therapies
  
  Emerging treatments
  
  Clinical trials
  
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- ▸ Navigating the healthcare system
  Navigating the healthcare system
  
  How the NHS works
  
  Your health team (MDT)
  
  Your child's health team (MDT)
  
  Getting a second opinion
  
  Questions to ask
  
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- Resources
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▸ Living with a brain tumour
- Living with a brain tumour
- ▸ How we can help you
  How we can help you
  
  Coronavirus and brain tumours
  
  Support and Info Line
  
  Facebook Support Groups
  
  Benefits clinic
  
  Phone Support Groups
  
  Run a local Support Group
  
  Healthcare professionals
  
  Children and Families Service
  
  Young Adults Service
  
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- ▸ Common side effects
  Common side effects
  
  Personality changes
  
  Memory difficulties
  
  Communication difficulties
  
  Fatigue or tiredness
  
  Depression
  
  Cognition
  
  Seizures (epilepsy)
  
  Learning difficulties in children
  
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- ▸ Maintaining your independence
  Maintaining your independence
  
  Driving
  
  Travelling by public transport
  
  Travel insurance
  
  Employment and brain tumours
  
  Finances and government benefits
  
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- ▸ Health and fitness
  Health and fitness
  
  Diet and nutrition
  
  Coping with depression
  
  Exercise
  
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- ▸ Relationships
  Relationships
  
  Being a carer
  
  Support for family and friends
  
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- Terminal diagnosis
- BRIAN: The brain tumour databank
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▸ Get involved
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  Other ways to give
  
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- ▸ Fundraise for us
  Fundraise for us
  
  Fundraising ideas
  
  Get your school involved
  
  Fundraise at work
  
  Make your money grow
  
  Meet your community team
  
  Tell us your plans
  
  Fundraising resources
  
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- Take part in an event
- Our Supporter Groups
- Volunteering
- Share your story
- ▸ Campaigning for change
  Campaigning for change
  
  What we're campaigning for
  
  Campaign with us
  
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▸ For researchers
- For researchers
- ▸ Research Grants
  Research Grants
  
  Expanding theories
  
  Quality of life call
  
  Conferences and workshops
  
  Clinical trial funding schemes
  
  Clinical research training fellowships
  
  Clinical biomarkers awards
  
  Future leaders
  
  Palliative care
  
  Glioma clinical trial
  
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- Assessment criteria
- Manage your grant
- Who We Fund
- Working with us
- Patient and public involvement
How we choose what to fund

We award our funds through a peer review process, with applications reviewed by independent experts. Find out more.

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▸ About Us
- About Us
- Our vision
- ▸ Our strategy
  Our strategy
  
  Strategy progress
  
  Our accreditations
  
  Our partners
  
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- ▸ Our research strategy
  Our research strategy
  
  Our progress
  
  How we choose what to fund
  
  What we're funding
  
  Our partnerships
  
  Barriers to research
  
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- ▸ Who we are
  Who we are
  
  Our history
  
  Senior leadership team
  
  Our trustees
  
  Our advisors
  
  Our high profile supporters
  
  Young ambassadors
  
  Join the team
  
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- ▸ Our publications
  Our publications
  
  Losing Myself
  
  Finding Myself in Your Hands
  
  Losing My Place
  
  The Grey Matters
  
  Research Impact Report
  
  The Price You Pay
  
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- Annual report and accounts
- ▸ Contact us
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The research we're funding

Take a look at our range of pioneering research projects that will help adults and children with brain tumours.

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