Your Impact

For decades, chemotherapy, radiation and surgery have been the mainstays of treating cancer, however they have unwanted side effects, and can leave survivors with chronic health problems, and lifelong physical and intellectual disabilities.

Your donations have supported the establishment of the Ian Frazer Centre for Children’s Immunotherapy Research, By capitalising on the strengths of a multidisciplinary team of experts, the Centre will accelerate the pace of discovery and ensure research is translated into a new era of children’s cancer treatments. The Centre will harness immunotherapy potential to make significant improvements in children’s survival and survivorship.

Because of you, Children’s Brain Cancer Centre researchers discovered that spinal fluid collected in routine lumbar punctures can be used to create a ‘genomic fingerprint’ of a child’s cancer.

This fingerprint can then be used to create individually tailored treatments. This revolutionary discovery could become the standard for treating brain cancer in kids by 2023. Research findings like this give kids like Isaac and his family hope for a better future.

The Queensland Children’s Hospital is now home to a state-of-the-art $5 million digital Positron Emission Tomography – Computer Tomography (PET-CT) scanner, thanks to a $2.5 million investment from a gift in Will donation.

The new state-of-the-art digital PET-CT scanner will provide easier and faster scans for paediatric oncology patients undergoing treatment at Queensland Children’s Hospital. Ensuring kids like Liam can have the right care delivered in the right place at the right time.

Thanks to you, a high-density (HD) electroencephalography (EEG) machine has been funded at the Children’s Centre for Health Research in South Brisbane.

This piece of equipment is central to a research study that is monitoring brain waves in children affected by stroke and brain injury. Helping kids like Rowan have a more pleasant treatment experience and allowing them to be awake, giving clinicians a more comprehensive understanding of their brain patterns during recovery.

Our ‘playability’ loans library has been further developed thanks to your donations and the input of a very important little boy, Zayden and his family.

Zayden’s Toy Box has been named in his honour and boasts a collection of switch adapted and sensory toys for children with vision impairment, varying mobilities or cognitive abilities, and sensory needs.

Queensland kids with bone cancer, like Sofia, will benefit from better outcomes after surgery, thanks to cutting-edge 3D surgical navigation technology.

Thanks to your generosity, this $1.7 million piece of equipment, made Queensland Children’s Hospital the first paediatric hospital in Australia to use this technology. Without this equipment, Sofia would have faced a very different future.