A MUM whose four-year-old daughter was diagnosed with an aggressive cancerous brain tumour has welcomed a new report tackling underfunding of the disease.

Naomi Savage, now 14 and from Romanby, Northallerton, has undergone three craniotomies and around 30 intensive cycles of chemotherapy, with a number of scares and setbacks since she was diagnosed in 2007.

Shocked by her daughter’s experience and having discovered that brain tumours kill more people under 40 than any other cancer, Lucy Savage set up Naomi’s Fight for Life fund which has since raised thousands of pounds.

And now she is working with pioneering national charity Brain Tumour Research, which published the report, to press for more Government funding.

“For more than a generation, governments have failed brain tumour patients and their families with the result that we still know so little about this dreadful disease,” she said.

“If brain tumour research had been given the same levels of funding as breast cancer and leukaemia over the last 20 or 30 years, many of the patients we have met through Naomi’s journey who have since passed away, might still be with us today.”