Edward Ruggiero has joined more than 112,000 people affected by brain tumours to sign a petition created by the charity Brain Tumour Research calling for the government to increase investment in scientific research to bring parity of funding with other cancers such as breast and leukaemia.Edward Ruggiero, 33, was living in Brighton and forging a career as a drag queen when he was diagnosed with a grade 3 anaplastic astrocytoma in 2017 at the age of 29.
He was given a prognosis of three to five years and now feels he is living on borrowed time. A life-threatening infection following an awake craniotomy meant further surgery to remove part of his skull, leaving his head misshapen.