Breakthroughs in Research

how our researchers save lives

When Cure Cancer Australia Foundation began in 1967, if your doctor broke the news that you had Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia, he'd have told you there was no chance of survival.  It was a death sentence.

Now, with the same diagnosis, you'd be told that you had a better than 75% chance of living a long and healthy life - thanks to a special research project supported by Cure Cancer Australia Foundation.  With the Foundation's help, Professor James Biggs was able to develop the highly successful Bone Marrow Transplant Unit at Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital.  The unit quickly established itself as one of the world leaders in this field of research and treatment.

The diagnosis of Thyroid Cancer no longer requires dangerous invasive surgery. The Foundation's support enabled Dr Carolyn Mountford at Royal North Shore Hospital to devise the means to diagnose this disease by using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).  Dr Mountford is now the world leader in this innovative field and has applied this methodology to the early non-invasive diagnosis of many other cancers.

Early diagnosis and long term survival are very often synonymous in cancer.

Bladder Cancer is a particularly vicious disease that kills many Australians each year.  It is hard to detect and confirm before it sends out its deadly metastases to form cancers in other parts of the body.  A groundbreaking Cure Cancer Australia Foundation research project conducted by Dr Paul Jackson at the Prince of Wales Hospital Oncology Research Centre found the long sought-after trigger mechanism that turns a healthy bladder cell into a malignant cell.  With that knowledge, new treatments may now be devised to stop bladder cancer in its tracks.

There is no limit to what our innovative researchers can do, with your help.