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ACCESS TO VORASIDENIB IN THE UK

VORASIDENIB LATEST MHRA AND NICE We are very happy to announce that  Vorasidenib has now been approved by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) to treat Grade 2 Astrocytoma and Oligodenroglioma patients who have IDH 1/2 mutations aged over 12. Click on the link for full details. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vorasidenib-approved-to-treat-patients-12-years-and-older-with-grade-2-astrocytoma-or-oligodendroglioma-with-a-susceptible-idh1-or-idh2-mutation A NICE committee meeting was […]
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18th NORFOLK FAMILY WALK 2024

    SIGN UP FOR THE 19th NORFOLK FAMILY WALK! Sunday 21st September 2025 FULL DETAILS HERE          
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Research

  HIGHER COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS & RETURN TO WORK IN LGGS Professor Stephen J. Price BSc MBBS (Hons) PhD FRCS (Neuro Surg), Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Cambridge Biomedical Campus We are now into the second year of funding PhD student Jasmine Kennedy who is carrying out this project under the supervision of Prof Price.  A questionnaire […]
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All Party Parliamentary Group for Brain Tumours

COFFEE & BINGO EVENTS Trustee Neal’s sister Carol Blatherwick has donated £100 to ABTF being money raised from coffee and bingo events. We continue to support the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Brain Tumours which seeks to raise awareness of the issues facing the brain tumour community to improve research, diagnosis, information, support, treatment and […]
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