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Retired pharmacist Stephen Painter has been appointed as a new trustee of the national charity, Brain Tumour Research.

The charity is striving to fund a network of seven dedicated research centres, as well as calling on the Government and larger cancer charities to invest more in brain tumour research.

Brain tumours kill more children and adults under the age of 40 than any other cancer, and yet just one per cent of the national spend on cancer research is allocated to this disease. 16,000 people each year are diagnosed with a brain tumour and less than 20 per cent survive beyond five years, compared with an average of 50 per cent across all cancers.

Stephen was the managing director of Oxfordshire-based Lyndhurst Pharmacies and prior to that worked as the pharmacy operations controller with the former supermarket group Safeway. Together with wife Louise, he has three daughters, Sally, an ophthalmic surgeon, Claire, a physiotherapist, and Emily, a dentist. Their son Mark was a student at Portland College, Nottingham, when he passed away in 2004 at the age of 19.

Stephen, who lives in Chinnor, said: €I am delighted to join Brain Tumour Research as a Trustee as it works towards a cure for this dreadful disease. Having lost our son Mark, who was born with severe cerebral palsy, I can empathise with families who are touched by tragedy and I am keen to use both my professional and personal experience to help the charity.€