Prime Minister Andy Burnham has responded to Archie Goodburn's impassioned plea for more money and resources to be put into brain cancer research by inviting the Scottish swimmer to a personal meeting.
Tears rolling down his face, the 25-year-old had implored "give us a chance to fight for our lives" while speaking about the subject on BBC Breakfast.
Replying to the video on TikTok, Burnham said: "Archie, thank you for this. I know how hard it must have been.
"What you're doing for other people while you're going through all this yourself shows the best of us.
"I'd really like to meet you and hear from you directly and I've asked my team to get in touch."
Goodburn was diagnosed with inoperable brain tumours just over two years ago and has since passionately advocated for an increased focus on the disease.
"One of my dreams is that we see a future where brain cancer isn't the biggest killer of patients under 40," he said during the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
And, making a direct appeal to Downing Street to help ease the "unbearable" suffering of brain cancer patients and their families, he added: "Andy Burnham, if you believe and want to make a change and a difference to the future of our country and our young population, please listen to us.
"Please establish a national brain cancer lead and give us a chance to fight for our lives because the things that patients are going through out there are unbelievable and so unjust.
"There are clinical trials around the world, in the US, in Australia, in China, that could change lives. We are not seeing them in the UK and it is unfair and unjust.
"Please invest and make the difference. I'm on my knees begging for - not just my own life - but for those of my best friends and those that are affected and the families around the country.
"This has to change. It's been going for too long and the suffering is unbearable."
The Commonwealth Games in Glasgow were a huge driving force for Goodburn, amid the emotional turmoil of the past two years, and he completed his goal of reaching the 50m breaststroke final.
He missed out on the medal he craved, but even after that disappointment he was able to eloquently and passionately advocate for increased brain cancer research.
Few athletes - if any - at the Games got a bigger ovation than Goodburn.
"It was an honour to compete in front of such a fantastic and supportive home crowd," he said, reflecting on the Games and his post-race interviews.
"To see the support off the back of those interviews has been really, really touching and inspiring.
"In that moment I was speaking about what felt important to me and the crowd were very supportive of my journey, and it only felt right to address that when I got out the pool.
"What I do in the pool is only possible because of the medical advances that have been made and the campaign that's been done by the whole community. It was really a chance to give back and make sure that momentum keeps going."
And he insists he will continue to try to make a difference for other patients.
"I partly feel like why we don't hear so much about brain cancer and why the awareness is so poor is because patients unfortunately die so quickly," he said.
"I have this prognosis which is slightly longer and it's given me this time to advocate - it's two years since I was diagnosed.
"I think when you're really backed up against a wall like that there's only really one way to go and that's to go and fight."
