Scottish family who lost son to brain cancer back campaign

By The Newsroom
Published 21st Nov 2016, 17:50 BST
Updated 22nd Nov 2016, 12:27 BST
Sam O'Calloghan died of brain cancer when he was just five years old. Picture: Brain Tumour Research/PA Wire.Sam O'Calloghan died of brain cancer when he was just five years old. Picture: Brain Tumour Research/PA Wire.
Sam O'Calloghan died of brain cancer when he was just five years old. Picture: Brain Tumour Research/PA Wire.

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A family who lost their young son to brain cancer are backing a campaign to increase research funding of the disease as a report showed patients in Scotland face the worst five-year survival rates in the UK.

Just 13.5 per cemt of brain tumour patients in Scotland survive beyond five years of their diagnosis, behind the 20 per cent rate for the disease in England