Brain tumour patients need support

NOT enough is being done to help people cope with the life-changing experience of having a brain tumour, a support group has claimed.

Returning home after treatment was possibly their biggest challenge, said Mary Hogan, a radiation therapist at St Luke’s Hospital in Dublin.

“While a lot of improvements have been made in the care of brain tumour patients, a lot more needs to be done for them after they come home so they can get on with the rest of their life,” she said.