From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvina.

Cancer affects most people in Britain in one way or another. Celebrities, members of the

royal family, Olympians and politicians, even the health

secretary, Wes Streting, had it. So why haven't we been better at treating it? It's a question

that's been asked for years. Let me take you back to January 2018 and a debate in the House of Lords, which became intensely personal.

I got into a taxi, but I couldn't speak. I had two powerful seizures. I was taken to hospital.

Two days later, I was told that I had a brain tumor.

Baroness Jowell, Tessa Jowl, who'd been a minister in the Blair and Brown governments,

was wearing a woolly hat as she told a pack chamber about her own cancer and the limits of the

treatment offered. Less than 2% of cancer research funding is spent on brain tumours.

And no new vital drugs have been developed in the last 50 years.

And it wasn't just brain tumours.

The problems she raised chimed with the experience of cancer

sufferers across the country. We have the worst survival rate in Western Europe, partly because

diagnosis in cancer is too slow.

It was a clarion call for better cancer care that offered patients more hope.

It was also her final speech in Parliament.

She died a few months later.

In the end, what gives a life meaning

is not only how it is lived,

but how it draws to a close.

I hope that this debate will give hope

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