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I’m walking the Kokoda Track to raise vital funding for research into children's brain tumours, so that better treatments can be developed. I’m a brain tumour researcher, and in my position as the NeuroSurgical Research Foundation Professor of Brain Tumour Research I frequently have the privilege to meet with brain tumour patients and their families. Through this I see the inadequacy and impact of current therapies on patients, and the desperate need for better therapeutic approaches. I strongly believe that with sufficient funding, better treatment and cures for brain tumours can be achieved.
By taking on this huge challenge I’m thrilled to be teaming up with two great charities in the Crows Foundation and the NeuroSurgical Research Foundation to try to put actions behind those words to raise funds to support cutting-edge research led by Associate Professor Quenten Schwarz at the Centre for Cancer Biology (University of South Australia and SA Pathology) and Professor Jordan Hansford (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and Women’s and Children’s Hospital) that has the potential to make a real difference to outcomes for children with brain tumours.
Please help me to make my target to raise $5,000 for this important cause.
The Kokoda Track is a single-file foot thoroughfare that runs 96 kilometres through the Owen Stanley Range in Papua New Guinea. The Track is a narrow, uneven, muddy path with numerous steep inclines and declines. The physical challenges of the Kokoda Track are immense. Long demanding days of hiking through steep, sometimes slippery terrain, often to points of high altitude and under a hot sun. Mornings are early, with the daily trek commencing at sunrise.
Whilst the trek is one of the most challenging things our participants will do, both mentally and physically. They will draw strength knowing their achievement will support children in need. The Crows Foundation supports close to 20,000 disadvantaged children through well-being, education, indigenous and inclusion programs. The NRF search for a cure for childhood brain cancer, the killer of more children than any other disease, for which treatments have not improved in the past 30 years.
