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TWO women who have lost loved ones to brain tumours are demanding action from the Government to fund research to help find a cure. Mum-of-two Katie Coxon, from Perkinsville, near Chester-le-Street, died aged 38 in January, just three months after being diagnosed with a diffuse midline glioma. Her sister, Lauren Loan, a warehouse operative for Asda, also from Perkinsville, signed a petition created by the charity Brain Tumour Research calling for increased investment in scientific research to bring parity of funding with other cancers such as breast and leukaemia. Lauren, 30, said: “Katie was given two to three short years to live. She was supposed to start treatment on November 24 but she had eight surgeries on a shunt as it kept malfunctioning which kept delaying the treatment. ....