Petition calls on UK government to fund research for childhood cancers
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Logan
A petition has been started by a legal officer calling on the UK government to fund more research into childhood cancers.
Fiona Govan, senior legal officer at the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, began the campaign in tribute to her three-year-old grandson, Logan, whom she and her family lost to DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma) in 2017.
Logan received the same treatment then as Neil Armstrong’s daughter did in 1962. DIPG is terminal on diagnosis and has an average survival of just nine months.
The petition calls for the government to state how much has been given for childhood cancers and DIPG specifically.
It argues that the government, through the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), must ringfence funds for childhood cancer research. The figures must be transparent as must the government’s answers about the lack of progress in curing these diseases.
The petition has 64,985 signatures at the time of publication. At 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in Parliament.
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