Brain cancer to get more funding in tribute to Tessa Jowell, says No 10

Research funding will double to 40m and all NHS hospitals will perform gold standard tumour diagnosis tests

Brain cancer research will have its government funding doubled to 40m and gold standard tumour diagnosis tests will be rolled out to all NHS hospitals, in tribute to Dame Tessa Jowell, Downing Street announced on Sunday.

No 10 announced it would fulfil two key campaign aims of the late former Labour cabinet minister, including a national rollout of a brain cancer diagnosis test, gold standard dye, used to identify tumours.