Public Awareness and funding for childhood cancers with low survival rates

What it asks

What the petitioner did first

1. 5 Mar 2020
   Public Petitions Committee

   New Petitions
   1 mention
2. 29 Oct 2020
   Public Petitions Committee

   Continued Petitions
   1 mention
3. 13 Jan 2021
   Public Petitions Committee

   Continued Petitions
   1 mention

1. England775 43.8%
2. Scotland705 39.9%
3. United Kingdom146 8.3%
4. United States47 2.7%
5. Wales35 2%
6. Australia15 0.8%
7. Northern Ireland9 0.5%
8. Ireland7 0.4%
9. France6 0.3%
10. Canada5 0.3%
11. 14 other countries19 1.1%

1. Malcolm Bryant 8 Jan 2020
   Children cancer should be paramount
2. Isabel Dick 8 Jan 2020
   Astronaut Neil Armstrong daughter died of this a few years before the moon landing and yet 50 years on from the moon landing still no cure for this killer disease and minimal treatments no progress made time to change that
3. Ezra Maclean 8 Jan 2020
   Logan was my big brother and I wanted to grow up with him
4. Mrs Debbie Gilbert 8 Jan 2020
   Must find a cure to many families are being destroyed by this terrible disease
5. Beverly Ingle 8 Jan 2020
   My great grandson, Ryder Tuck, was diagnosed with DIPG in June 2016 and died October 2016. We need a cure for this monster that is stealing our children and destroying families! Please find a cure!
6. Donna blair 8 Jan 2020
   100percent something needs done and now
7. Margie Akehurst 8 Jan 2020
   Please provide funding for research in pediatric cancer, especially rare such as DIPG. Without funding a cure cannot be found. Our children deserve everything we can give. They are our future.
8. Fiona Lear 8 Jan 2020
   For my son and all the other children cruelly robbed of their childhoods and their lives
9. Diane Munro 8 Jan 2020
   I lost my precious grandson on 15th June 2017 to the monster DIPG brain tumour. We must do something to stop this most horrific of tumours.
10. Gerry Tye 8 Jan 2020
    DIPG is the worst of childhood cancers and it is terminal to all that are diagnosed. It is in our most vulnerable population, our children and young adults... Please support funding for research into stopping this cancer, we have the technology, we just need the will
    - DIPG is a World Wide Tragedy
    - My son Talin was just 6 years old and was diagnosed and gone in 13 weeks from DIPG
    - he died in my arms...
11. HELEN Daly 9 Jan 2020
    Every child, every life matters, looking at rare examples can give leaps of knowledge that solve more common problems.
12. Diane Pirrie 9 Jan 2020
    I know the cancer charities work relentlessly in search for incurable cancers for treatments to at least make them treatable if not curable, but to do that there needs to be more money available to them
13. Helen Ogden 9 Jan 2020
    I am a british national living in Spain & i have a good friend in the uk whose daughter died aged 6 of DIPG. Please raise awareness & research into this dreadful illness.
14. DougAllan 9 Jan 2020
    We dont know what's round the corner so grab life by horns and live it. Carpe diem.
15. Mrs Lorna Lindsay 9 Jan 2020
    Support this cause.
16. Bridget Bannister 9 Jan 2020
    Lost my grandson to brain tumours Valentine's Day 2016-more research needed to stop it happening to more children. He fought it for 6 years and lost the battle at 18.5
17. Lois jackson 9 Jan 2020
    Family member recently been diagnosed with dipg
    - brain tumour and it is shocking how little funding there is in this area of cancer.
18. Michelle Sharp 10 Jan 2020
    DIPG is literally trapping children in their bodies with full mental awareness before they die. Something needs to be done.
19. Kerry Scott 10 Jan 2020
    Come on Scottish government get you finger out and help these poor families.
20. Stephanie Colangelo 10 Jan 2020
    My 5 year old Grand-daughter died from a DIPG brain tumor. No cure. Please help these innocent children to live and save their families this heartache.
21. Linzi baillie 10 Jan 2020
    Yes most certainly they should
22. Claire Murdock 10 Jan 2020
    All cancers are important but childhood cancers are completely devastating. Please consider funding research and supporting early diagnosis by raising awareness. Thankyou.
23. Jacqueline McNeill 10 Jan 2020
    I support this petition
24. Lynn McColl 11 Jan 2020
    My daughter also died from a rare for of childhood cancer. No parent should ever be told that they cannot cure your child
25. Rita Adcock 11 Jan 2020
    Good luck with raising awarness into these horrible
    Diseases that claims very young innocent people xxx
26. Angela Cousins 11 Jan 2020
    For our children.
27. Susanne irvine 11 Jan 2020
    Please help these children. No-one should have to watch their child die.
28. Caroline Wright 11 Jan 2020
    In Gods Name please help find a cure to stop the suffering these children go through when they are diagnosed with DIPG..
29. Nancy Daltrey 11 Jan 2020
    This cause must receive more funding
30. Claire mair 12 Jan 2020
    I had never heard of this supposed to be rare childhood cancer and in the last 3-4 years 4 local children have lost their lives something must be done to research a cure
31. Valerie Greig 12 Jan 2020
    Something needs to be done for research into this terrible illness too many young children are dying from it.There is no treatment at all unless you are willing to travel abroad and even then the treatment only gives them a few more months and costs thousands of pounds.
32. Angela Whalen 12 Jan 2020
    More research urgently.
33. Carla oram 12 Jan 2020
    More money and awareness for child cancer DIPG
34. Jen Kelly 12 Jan 2020
    Truly awful disease needs all the research possible. Best of luck with your petition.
35. Zoe Stevenson 12 Jan 2020
    No child should suffer. Especially not unnecessarily.
36. Doris Trimming 12 Jan 2020
    Not enough is being done for children with DIPG or any other cancers, we urgently need to address this.
37. Lorraine Wright 12 Jan 2020
    Please help we lost our nephew Alex Logan 2018 6 years old
38. Gillian Santos 12 Jan 2020
    Family member has been diagnosed with DIPG which is an inoperable tumour there is no cure and no progress on finding a cure has been made in over 60 years. We need government funding to find a cure to give us hope for others who are battling this terrible cancer.
39. debbie WESTON 12 Jan 2020
    thank you for letting me sign
40. Louise Carter 13 Jan 2020
    Such a good cause, I hope its successful.
41. Jane Muir 13 Jan 2020
    Too many children are losing their lives to this!
42. Kathy Given 15 Jan 2020
    My grandson died at the age of 13 in 2017 with DIPG and would love to see more funds given for the research of this and other child cancers.
43. Briony roberts 16 Jan 2020
    Governments should be striving to eradicate all cancers to the best of their ability, especially childhood cancers and raising awareness of how to spot all types of cancers.
44. Lorraine Reardon 17 Jan 2020
    This is a matter of urgency too many precious children are lost to this awful disease
45. Kayleigh hughes 18 Jan 2020
    I hope awareness can be raised and children can be helped. God forbid anything like this happens to my daughter. I don't know how mums and grandmothers cope because I know I couldn't. Good luck for the future x
46. Amelia smith 18 Jan 2020
    More should be done for children with cancer
47. Kerry Collins 19 Jan 2020
    Please help these poor children.
48. Teresa McKay 19 Jan 2020
    More research is essential for treatment of childhood cancers
49. Deborah jeffreys 19 Jan 2020
    Keep sharing this and use the power of people to change what governments do for cancer care
50. Tracey Gomez 19 Jan 2020
    Jus do it!