Coping with a brain tumour diagnosis brings huge challenges - from the shock of diagnosis to the anxiety of waiting for scan or test results, to relationships issues, physical changes and financial pressures.

These can be especially overwhelming for teenagers and young adults who are already navigating their education and growing independence. That’s where people today's guest comes in. Dr Clare Jacobson is a Specialist Clinical Psychologist in a Teenage and Young Adult Cancer Service. Using imagery and analogies, she shares some practical tips that she uses, and that has learned from those in therapy, that we can all put into practice to support our mental health.

You can follow Clare on Instagram here

And see some of her video tips on our website here.

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you have any questions about this episode of the podcast, email podcast@thebraintumourcharity.org

A marathon episode for marathon reasons! 136 people are taking part in the TCS London Marathon 2026 to raise funds for The Brain Tumour Charity.

We are hugely grateful to every single one of them - but couldn't possibly interview them all. So, some of our Involvement Champions chatted to some of our runners to find out their reasons for running - and we've edited excerpts from those conversations to create this inspiring listen.

TW: Bereavement and loss discussed.

We hope it does them justice - and maybe some runners will listen to this very episode as they run round.

You can read a feature about some of this year's runners on our website by clicking here and find out about how to register for the 2027 event here.

Good luck to everyone taking part and to all their supporters cheering them on too!

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you have any questions about this episode of the podcast, email podcast@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you or a loved one have spent - or are planning to spend - hours searching online for treatment options or clinical studies into potential new brain tumour therapies, this episode is for you. If you're a scientist aiming to recruit people to a study, it's also for you.

Professor Susan Short explains how her brainchild Access to Clinical Trials for Brain Tumours (ACT-BT) aims to lift the burden off the individual and speed up access to clinical trials for adult brain tumour patients.

ACT-BT is a pilot project funded by The Brain Tumour Charity with patient involvement overseen by brainstrust. It also aims to collect valuable data to inform and ensure progress for this community.

Find out more here: https://www.thebraintumourcharity.org/news/research-news/access-to-brain-tumour-clinical-trials/

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you have any questions about this episode of the podcast, email podcast@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you have any questions about this episode of the podcast, email podcast@thebraintumourcharity.org

We're delighted to be joined by Dr Scott Arthur MP for this special episode. Dr Arthur put forward a Private Members' Bill for rare cancers and on Thursday 5th March 2026, it went onto the statute books - becoming the Rare Cancers Act.

Listen in to find out more about what motivated a very new MP to get behind this particular cause; how 40 different organisations collaborated to make it a reality - though fate played a part; what happens next and how weekly runs and volunteering aide Scott's wellbeing.

You can read more about the background to the Rare Cancers Bill here.

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

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Dr Tyler Miller was one of our Future Leaders. Now a Junior Fellow, he manages a team of 12 at his own lab.

Here he explains how this team is trying to figure out how to prevent our own immune cells from suppressing our immune system. Instead, he aims to turn part of a brain tumour's immune system - myeloid cells - into an effective army of immune agents that can both kill tumour cells and attract new recruits, like the T-cells Mat mentioned, to target the tumour.

You can read more about this here

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

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Welcome to a new series of very short episodes of The Brain Tumour Charity podcast in which you’ll get to know key people in the brain tumour community.

The first part of the series is called Meet The Researcher and it's based on a webinar we hosted in 2025 that was all about immunology.

We’re kicking it off by introducing you to someone who’s trying to figure out how our body’s natural defence mechanisms can help fight the aggressive brain tumour glioblastoma.

You can find out more about our Future Leaders programme and Dr Mat Clement's work here. We wish him the best of luck with the incredible work he's doing.

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you have any questions about this episode of the podcast, email podcast@thebraintumourcharity.org

At a reception in Westminster on 15th December, The Brain Tumour Charity released its report into the cost of a brain tumour diagnosis. The report makes the economic case for a National Brain Tumour Strategy to minimise these costs - both to the individual and to society. We unpick this report with Marcus Loney-Evans, Head of Policy and Campaigns at The Charity.

You can read the full report here.

If you or someone you know needs a listening ear, you can contact our Support Team by calling 0808 800 0004, by using the web chat on our website or by emailing support@thebraintumourcharity.org

If you have any questions about this episode of the podcast, email podcast@thebraintumourcharity.org