Childhood Cancers In The UK

EDM number 1018 in 2008-09, proposed by Evan Harris on 09/03/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Diseases.

That this House, in recognition of International Childhood Cancer Day on 15 February 2009 and Brain Tumour Awareness Month in March 2009, notes that 200,000 people each year develop a malignant form of primary brain tumour for which a cure is unlikely; further notes that in developed countries such as the US, Canada and the UK, brain tumours have overtaken leukaemia as the most prominent cause of childhood cancer mortality; and calls on the Government to ensure that there are no unnecessary barriers to medical research or clinical trials on brain tumours amongst children.

This motion has been signed by a total of 76 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.