Brain Tumour Awareness Month - March 2021

 Brain tumours are indiscriminate; they can affect anyone at any age. What’s more, they kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer.

A brain tumour is a growth of cells in the brain that multiplies in an abnormal, uncontrollable way. Brain tumours are graded according to how fast they grow and how likely they are to grow back after treatment. Grade 1 and 2 tumours are low grade, and grade 3 and 4 tumours are high grade.

The UK Brain Tumour Awareness Month campaign in March was founded by Member Charities of Brain Tumour Research in 2004 in order to raise vital awareness of the chronic lack of funding, to influence key decision makers and to challenge UK Governments and larger cancer charities to invest more nationally in order to sustain the vital long-term research that’s so desperately needed.

For more information surrounding Brain Tumours, please visit Brain Tumour Research and NHS Choices websites:

https://www.braintumourresearch.org/brain-tumour-awareness-month

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/brain-tumours/

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying the importance of improving both the awareness and knowledge of and supporting those who are suffering from brain tumours and the after effects, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

BOOKS:

• Neurology / Lionel Ginsberg, 2010; 9th ed, [Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell] - Keele and NHS e-book also available.

• Essential neurology / Iain Wilkinson, Graham Lennox, 2005; 4th ed. [Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Pub] - Keele and NHS e-book also available.

• Living with cancer : a step-by-step guide for coping medically and emotionally with a serious diagnosis / Vicki A Jackson, David P Ryan, Michelle D Seaton, 2017, [Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press]

• Caffey's pediatric diagnostic imaging / Brian D Coley, John Caffey, 2013; 12th ed, [Philadelphia, Pa. : Saunders]

• Osborn's brain : imaging, pathology, and anatomy / Anne G Osborn, Gary L Hedlund, Karen L Salzman, 2018; Second edition, [Philadelphia, PA : Elsevier]

• Pear shaped : the funniest book so far this year about brain cancer / A Blain, 2015, [CreateSpace]

JOURNALS:

• Brain Tumor Research and Treatment, Korean Brain Tumor Society [Available as a NHS ejournal 2013 onwards].

• Brain Tumor Pathology, Tokyo : Springer Japan [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards].

• Neuro-oncology practice / Oxford : Oxford University Press. [Available as a Keele ejournal 2014 onwards].

• Brain Pathology / Wiley – Blackwell [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 2006 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Brain Topography / New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards with 1 year embargo, and as a NHS ejournal 1999 onwards with 1 year embargo].

• Journal of Neuro Oncology, London : Springer [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, and as an NHS ejournal 1997 onward with 1 year embargo].

• Neuro Oncology Advances, Oxford : Oxford university Press [Open Access journal, accessible via  Keele & NHS ejournals 1999 onwards].

• Brain, Oxford : Oxford university Pres. [Available in print 1994 – 2014, as a Keele ejournal 1878 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 1996 onwards with 1 year embargo].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

• Visser, Otto ; Ardanaz, Eva ; Botta, Laura ; Sant, Milena et al, “Survival of adults with primary malignant brain tumours in Europe; Results of the EUROCARE-5 study” European Journal of Cancer, 2015, Vol.51(15), pp.2231-2241. [Available via Keele ejournals and Clinical Key for UHNM].

• Mccartney, Aileen ; Butler, Claire ; Acreman, Sue, “Exploring access to rehabilitation services from allied health professionals for patients with primary high-grade brain tumours”, Palliative Medicine, 2011, Vol.25(8), pp.788-796. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Bennett, Emily ; English, Martin William ; Rennoldson, Michael ; Starza‐Smith, Arleta, “Predicting parenting stress in caregivers of children with brain tumours”, Psycho‐Oncology, 2013, Vol.22(3), pp.629-636. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Lek, Ngee ; Prentice, Philippa ; Williams, Rachel M ; Ong et al, “Risk factors for obesity in childhood survivors of suprasellar brain tumours: a retrospective study”, Acta Pædiatrica, 2010, Vol.99(10), pp.1522-1526. [Available in print and via Keele and NHS ejournals].

• Nota, Nienke M ; Wiepjes, Chantal M ; De Blok, Christel J M et al, “The occurrence of benign brain tumours in transgender individuals during cross-sex hormone treatment”, Brain, 2018, Vol. 141(7), pp.2047-2054. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Lupatsch, Judith E ; Bailey, Helen D ; Lacour, Brigitte et al, “Childhood brain tumours, early infections and immune stimulation: A pooled analysis of the ESCALE and ESTELLE case-control studies (SFCE, France)”, Cancer Epidemiology, 2018, Vol.52, pp.1-9. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals].

• Boele FW, Rooney AG, Bulbeck H, Sherwood P., “Interventions to help support caregivers of people with a brain or spinal cord tumour.’, Cochrane Database Systematic Reviews 2019,  2^nd July; Issue 7:CD012582. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012582.pub2.

 PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE

• NHS website
• Brain tumours https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/brain-tumours/
• Brain tumour search results https://www.nhs.uk/search/results?q=brain%20tumour

• NHS Evidence – brain tumours with ‘Information for the public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=brain+tumours&sp=on

• Patients support tab in the Health Library Caner subject links page https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/subjectlinks/cancer/#patient-support

• Patient Info
• Brain tumours in adults https://patient.info/doctor/brain-tumours-in-adults 
• Brain tumours in children https://patient.info/doctor/brain-tumours-in-children

• Macmillan Cancer Support – Brain Tumours https://www.macmillan.org.uk/cancer-information-and-support/brain-tumour

• Cancer Research UK – Brain Tumours https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/brain-tumours

CURRENT AWARENESS

Health Library current awareness service:

• Cancer https://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Cancer

Health Library at County current awareness service:

• Cancer - http://www.protopage.com/pgmclibrary#Cancer