sad statistics

friends, It’s not good;

in Australia, brain cancer kills more people under 40 than any other type of cancer.

Everybody thinks that it’s super rare but in fact, someone in Australia gets a diagnosis every 5 hours :(

It claims more lives than our roads, and kills more children than any other type of illness.

80% of patients diagnosed with brain cancer die within 5 years, some just a few months after diagnosis.

The field of brain cancer research has been chronically underfunded for over 3 decades, so survival rates have barely moved in that time.

And despite all of that, it receives less than 5% of total cancer research funding.

why is this so hard to treat?

  1. There are over 100 different kinds of brain cancer and they all require a different approach to treatment.

  2. A protective layer around the brain called the blood-brain barrier, prevents many drugs and compounds trying to get to the tumour, from reaching it.

  3. Brain cancer tumours are also super aggressive, grow really fast and can develop a resistance to drugs in record time.