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Help put an end to cancers great unknowns
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Now is a critical time for cancer research.
Thousands of Australians will lose their lives to this devastating disease every year until we answer the great unknowns: How do we better prevent, detect and treat all cancers? Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) relies on the generous gifts from our supporters to help fund lifesaving research that will answer these questions and give people diagnosed with cancer greater certainty.
People like Sam.
Until she was seven years old, Sam’s childhood was carefree and secure. But when her mum was diagnosed with breast cancer and died two years later, Sam lost trust in her world.
Just as Sam started to find solid ground in her mid-20s, cancer threw her into the abyss again. This time it was her own diagnosis: stage 4 colon cancer.
As Sam listened to an oncologist and a surgeon arguing over the best course of treatment for her, it really hit home.
“They didn’t have treatments that were going to cure me.” – Sam.
Sam’s doctors can’t give her certainty, and unfortunately this is the case for thousands of others impacted by cancer.
Each year, ACRF grows more determined to find these answers. By fueling research breakthroughs with funding, we can ensure our loved ones have options for lifesaving treatment.
Will you help us?
“I continue to have hope about research. I guess my biggest goal would be to try and catch cancer early to work out why it’s happening. Because if you can understand the why, then you can try to stop it before it becomes a problem.” - Sam
Putting an end to cancer's great unknowns
Researchers can see lifesaving potential in immunotherapy.
Extraordinary progress has been made in cancer research in Australia, but researchers still don’t know how to make immunotherapy work for everyone. Only by investing in new technology, equipment and infrastructure can we help researchers find treatments for every person’s cancer.
Children with rare cancers now have treatments that didn’t exist five or ten years ago. And immunotherapy – regarded as a ‘new’ type of cancer treatment – is starting to save lives. Brilliant Australian researchers are working hard to save lives like Sam’s with immunotherapy-based cancer treatments. Funding cancer research can give every person like Sam, who faces a shortage of treatments, the hope and certainty they need.
Since ACRF was founded in 1984
Approximately 135 people die every day from cancer in Australia.
