About Cure Cancer Australia

Since 1967, Cure Cancer Australia has provided an essential link between the community and our young Australian research scientists.  They provide researchers working in all areas of cancer with funding support at the start of their careers. Funding more research grants each year enables Australia’s brightest research talent to secure further funding, build on their ideas and continue their vital work in Australia.

Most of us know someone who has suffered cancer. You may have seen or experienced how life changes with the diagnosis: the fear, the pain, the uncertainty. The strength of the individuals who are affected and the support they get from friends, family and the wider community inspires and motivates all of us.

Every survivor’s great hope is a cure, which can only come from research. Yet cancer researchers almost always describe their biggest obstacle as funding. There simply isn’t enough, which is why Cure Cancer Australia appreciates the generous support of the Can Too community.

Cure Cancer Australia aims to give these brilliant creative minds the opportunity to focus on what they do best - breakthrough cancer research!

Thanks to the generosity of everyone involved in Can Too, research projects funded to date have been working in the areas of breast, bowel, brain, colorectal, ovarian, pancreatic, prostate, skin cancers as well as children's cancers, Leukaemia, and understanding cancer cell behaviour, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

What type of projects does Cure Cancer Australia funding support?

Cure Cancer Australia raises funds through innovative fundraising and with the support of valued corporate and individual donors. To date, more than $11 million has been allocated to individual research projects at cancer research institutes, teaching hospitals and university medical faculties in Australia.

The researchers are based in Australia’s leading medical research institutes such as Children’s Cancer Institute Australia, Children’s Medical Research Institute, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Centenary Institute, Westmead Millennium Institute, Kolling Institute of Medical Research as well as teaching hospitals and university medical faculties.

A world without cancer, nothing less. To read more about Cure Cancer Australia www.cure.org.au