Andy Burnham has invited British swimmer Archie Goodburn to a personal meeting after the Commonwealth Games star broke down in tears while making an emotional plea for more cancer research funding on BBC Breakfast yesterday. His emotional plea came after the Rare Cancers Bill, aimed at improving research and trials into rare types of the disease, had become law earlier this year. Goodburn, who was diagnosed inoperable brain tumours at just 22, remarkably reached the 50m breaststroke final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow last week'The Rare Cancers Bill covers 14 different types of rare cancers. Brain cancer is one of these in terms of incidents of diagnosis, but it's not the same in terms of the number of deaths it causes. 'The rare cancers bill establishes two new positions: a clinical lead and a research lead.