Brain cancer cells (yellow). Credit: Penn State/Mohammad Reza Abidian Lab.

Cancer Research UK and the Department of Health and Social Care have announced £45m in funding to support research on brain cancer in the country.

According to the department’s secretary Jeremy Hunt, approximately £20m of the grant will be available over the coming five years through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

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During the period, Cancer Research UK is set to provide another £25m, in addition to the £13m awarded every year for the research and development of cancer treatments.

The funding from this non-profit cancer research and awareness organisation is intended to support the University of Cambridge-based Children’s Brain Tumour Centre of Excellence and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR).

“Cancer Research UK has already substantially increased its funding into brain tumours and attracted some of the world’s leading experts to the UK.”

While these two specialised centres focus on brain cancer in children, opening of a new centre for adult brain tumours is being planned for later this year.

Cancer Research UK chief executive Harpal Kumar said: “Since we laid out our plans to tackle this challenge in 2014, Cancer Research UK has already substantially increased its funding into brain tumours and attracted some of the world’s leading experts to the UK.

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“This new funding will mean that we can accelerate these efforts further, by developing a critical mass of expertise in key areas and supporting work along the entire research pipeline to improve survival for children and adults with brain tumours.”

Of the total 11,400 brain cancer patients diagnosed each year, only 14% are surviving for around ten years, and the funding boost is expected to aid in exploring new approaches for detecting and treating the disease.