How your support is helping children with brain cancer

Across the last year, the Children’s Brain Cancer Centre has continued to make strides towards a future without brain cancer, achieving milestones in the treatment and detection of cancer.

Brain cancer claims the life of one Australian child every nine days – more than any other disease.

The Children’s Brain Cancer Centre aims to change that, uniting the best minds in paediatric brain research to advance treatment options, improve survivorship and find a cure.

At the Foundation, we are proud to invest over $5 million over five years into the Children’s Brain Cancer Centre.

Because of you, the Children’s Brain Cancer Centre has achieved some incredible milestones across the last year, including:

• Participated in national and international trials into less debilitating treatment options for diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas – a highly-aggressive and hard-to-treat brain tumour
• Research into a drug that has the potential to stop the growth of brain tumours
• Research into the early detection and ongoing monitoring of brain cancer in children through the use of liquid biopsy
• Support and additional learning tools for paediatric brain cancer survivors throughout their schooling years
• Established the Children’s Brain Cancer Conference – the only scientific conference in Australia dedicated to children’s brain cancer research.

Most recently, the Children’s Brain Cancer Conference returned for its second year. Across two days in March, researchers from around the globe came together to collaborate, share their discoveries and bolster the fight against paediatric brain cancer.

With your ongoing support, the Children’s Brain Cancer Centre can continue to make world-leading discoveries to change the outcomes for kids with brain cancer. Together, we can give hope to kids fighting brain cancer.

You can find out how your donations are helping sick and injured kids across Queensland and northern New South Wales here.