For people with brain cancer, time has stood still.
Every day, brain cancer patients are dying waiting for progress. This is unacceptable, but together we can change it.
Your tax-deductible gift before June 30 will help fund the national research infrastructure that will deliver more brain cancer breakthroughs — faster.
Please, give now.
1986. A time when there was no real internet. No mobile phones. Bob Hawke was prime minister and we were listening to music on cassettes.
It feels like another world. But for people with brain cancer, time has stood still.
Since modern data collection began in the 1980s there have been no major breakthroughs in brain cancer research.
Australians diagnosed with the most common form of brain cancer aren’t given hope. They’re given around 15 months to live — the same prognosis as in 1986. Today, brain cancer kills more children and adults under 40 than any other cancer.
Tragically, people are dying waiting for progress.
This is not acceptable and we need your help to change it.
Right now, Australia does not have the national research infrastructure needed to make breakthroughs that can save lives. That’s what we’re working to build.
Your gift today will help accelerate this work — bringing together national data, shared tissue samples, and platforms to enrol patients in research and enable data-driven trials that are faster and more cost-effective.
With the right infrastructure, brain cancer doctors and researchers across the country will be able to improve patient care and discover life-saving treatments sooner.
Dimity deserves better odds
"People like me are dying waiting for even the smallest progress.”
Dimity, who lives with a grade II astrocytoma, hopes to see her daughters start high school. She deserves better odds than in 1986, and so does every Australian who hears those terrifying words: you have brain cancer.
Your gift before June 30 funds the platforms that will deliver more breakthroughs — faster.
Your gift will help to fund:
Australian Brain Cancer Registry
To collect the clinical data needed to standardise and improve brain cancer patient care.
Opt Me In Platform
Opt Me In Platform
To facilitate cost-effective, data-driven clinical trials and enable patients to enrol themselves for research.
Biobanking and Organoid Platform
To standardise procedures, enable linkage of patient data to collected biospecimens, and accelerate innovative genomic brain cancer research.
80% of brain cancer patients will die within 5 years
Brain cancer kills more children than any other disease
2,000 Australians are diagnosed with brain cancer each year
Brain Cancer Australia Charity Ltd is a registered charity with DGR status.
ABN: 19 627 717 926. PO Box 170 Gordon NSW 2072.
Email info@braincanceraustralia.org.au
