All the resources referenced in this course are listed below:

The Brain Tumour Charity

• What causes brain tumours?, The Brain Tumour Charity (2020)
• Nausea and dizziness, The Brain Tumour Charity
• Eye tests, The Brain Tumour Charity
• Seizures, The Brain Tumour Charity
• Brain tumour symptoms in children, The Brain Tumour Charity
• Signs and symptoms, HeadSmart

Cancer Research UK/Macmillan

• Brain, other CNS and intracranial tumours statistics, Cancer Research UK (2020)
• Types of brain tumours, Cancer Research UK (2020)
• Grades of brain and spinal cord tumours, Cancer Research UK (2019)
• Survival of brain and spinal cord tumours, Cancer Research UK (2019)
• Symptoms of brain tumours, Cancer Research UK (2019)
• Types of children’s brain tumours, Cancer Research UK (2019)
• Signs and symptoms of a brain tumour, Macmillan (2019)

Guidelines

• Headache – assessment, NICE (2019)
• The International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3)
• Annex 4 Urgency of referrals, The College of Optometrists
• NG12 Guidelines – Brain and central nervous system cancers, NICE (2021)
• HeadSmart – Clinical guidelines, The Brain Tumour Charity

Other resources

• Routes to Diagnosis, National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (2017)
• Cancer in children, teenagers and young adults, National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (2018)
• Is it a brain tumour? Red flags that will help GPs with referral decisions, Guidelines in practice (2011)
• Improved NHS migraine care to save thousands of hospital stays, NHS England and Improvement (2020)
• Nausea: a review of pathophysiology and therapeutics , Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology 9(1) (2016)
• Dementia – World Health Organization (2020)
• Symptoms in primary care with time to diagnosis of brain tumours, Family Practice, Vol 35:5 (2018)
• Long-term sequelae in children treated for brain tumors: impairments, disability, and handicap, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology 20:2 (2003)
• RCGP Toolkit