THE parents of an 11-yearold schoolboy who died of a brain tumour have taken their battle for better funding for research into the disease to the House of Commons.

Sports-mad, fun-loving Danny Green, a former pupil at Leigh Beck Primary School, in Point Road, Canvey, died in July 2012 – just eight months after discovering he had the tumour.

His family have ensured his memory lives on through the Danny Green Fund. Castle Point MP Rebecca Harris is patron of the charity, which aims to raise awareness and cash.

Parents Lisa and Chris, of Hallet Road, Canvey, joined other supporters from campaign group Brain Tumour Research at Westminster last night to demand answers from politicians, push for policy changes and ask for at least £30million to be pledged to brain tumour research over the next ten years.

The campaigners say such research lags far behind that into other types of cancers.

Mr Green said: “Before he was diagnosed, our beautiful, fun-loving and energetic son was a typical ten-year-old in every way, very much living for the moment and enjoying life.

“He had a passion for karate and was already a black-belt. He also loved his football. Danny went from being a healthy, lively child to needing intensive and prolonged rehabilitation to enable him to even speak and walk again following surgery to remove the tumour.’’

Mr Green added: “Every day, families across the UK are given the dreadful news a loved one has a brain tumour with no hope of a cure.

“Something needs to be done by the Government and the larger cancer charities so a far greater proportion of funds is allocated to research into brain tumours.

“Breast cancer and leukaemia get lots of funding and have reaped the rewards from research while brain tumours lag seriously behind, with survival rates almost unchanged for the last 30 or more years.’’

Every year 16,000 people are diagnosed with brain tumours, with the survival rate at less than 20 per cent.