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Celebrating our 2024 Run Melbourne Champions

Two clinical researchers awarded 2024 Discovery Partner Fellowships

Peter Mac's full Open House Melbourne program

Glioblastoma Awareness Day - James and Anna's Story

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The pain wasn’t Anna’s wisdom teeth. It was cancer.

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We’re thrilled to announce this year’s 2024 Discovery Partner Fellowship recipients - Dr Adrian Minson and Dr Lavinia Spain! Now in its seventh year, the Discovery Partner Fellowships program provides financial support and a mechanism for early to mid-career Peter Mac clinician researchers to carve out time from their clinical roles to progress well-planned research projects. The fellowships are funded by our Discovery Partners who donate monthly to Peter Mac. Associate Director Clinical Research, Professor Jayesh Desai, said this fellowship program is crucial to providing opportunities to advance cancer research at Peter Mac. “We are very proud of this program and the outcomes our Discovery Partner Fellowship recipients have achieved in the past,” he said. “The Fellowship provides time away from front-line clinical roles to progress defined research projects focussed on advancing cancer treatments and improving patient outcomes and experience. “Dr Minson and Dr Spain were two outstanding applicants among a strong field this year and we look forward to observing the outcomes of their research as they strive to improve outcomes for cancer patients.” Thank you to our Discovery Partners for your ongoing support. “We are incredibly grateful towards the more than 50,000 Australians who give so generously to our Discovery Partner program each month. Your ongoing monthly contribution to Peter Mac provides a consistent source of funding that supports initiatives including the Discovery Partner Fellowships. Without your support, this cancer research would not be possible,

An enormous THANK YOU and CONGRATULATIONS to all our Run Melbourne Champions! We had an incredible 499 participants running for #TeamPeterMac on Sunday. For many of you, no doubt this run was the culmination of months of hard work, sweat, blisters and possibly a few tears. In total, an incredible $157,860.41 (and counting) was raised for cancer research at Peter Mac. Truly an amazing effort from our fundraisers, and we would also like to extend our gratitude to our Run Melbourne event partner @oolioau for their generous match day gift. We are so grateful for all of you who showed up, and it was SO LOVELY getting to meet many of you at our booth! It was also wonderful catching up with those of you who choose to run and support Peter Mac at Run Melbourne year on year. 💜 If would like to share your Run Melbourne experience with our wider community, please send them your information by clicking the “Share your story” the link in our bio or email them through to events@petermac.org #runmelbourne #runmelb #runmelbourne2024 #TeamPeterMac

Infections are bad news for people with cancer. But Dr Abby Douglas is looking for solutions. “Infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in cancer patients, and they often interrupt life-saving cancer treatments.” An infectious diseases physician, Dr Douglas is working towards better ways to test and treat immunocompromised cancer patients. She is advancing her research through two promising projects at Peter Mac. “My research tries to find ways to better detect infections in cancer patients, with simpler, less intrusive tests such as scans and blood tests,” says Dr Douglas. To achieve this, Dr Douglas has been working on a new diagnostic technique for fungal infections by combining PET and CT scans. She hopes that her research will help future doctors to reduce the morbidity and burden of diagnostic tests such as bronchoscopies and biopsies. She also hopes to provide more accuracy for patients and clinicians when detecting the presence or absence of infection. Dr Douglas’ second key aim is to better target antibiotics to those who truly need them and reduce exposure to them in those who do not. “Cancer patients experience a high rate of exposure to antibiotics and are thus at higher risk of the adverse effects of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance than those without cancer,” she says. “My research also aims to reduce the downsides of antibiotic exposure for cancer patients, which will lead to less toxicities, less antibiotic-resistant infections and reduced excess length of stay due to infection.” Thank you for supporting world-class researchers like Dr Douglas as they get closer to making breakthroughs that will help every person diagnosed with cancer. Find out more about how your support helps here: https://foundation.petermac.org/how-your-support-helps

Good luck to all our #TeamPeterMac champions pounding the pavement at Run Melbourne this Sunday! We can’t wait to cheer you on. 💪 #runmelbourne

Today is Glioblastoma Awareness Day, and we would like to share Anna and James’s story with you. “My older brother James was diagnosed with leukaemia when he was 12. He underwent radiotherapy treatment at Peter Mac in conjunction with a bone marrow transplant that he received through the Royal Children’s Hospital.” James's treatment was successful, and he spent the next 10 years cancer free. In 2022, James began to experience some difficulty with his speech, what followed took everyone by surprise. James was diagnosed with glioblastoma – a type of brain cancer that is very challenging to treat. “Our family were absolutely heartbroken and beyond shocked that this had happened so unexpectedly. He had only been experiencing symptoms of some difficulty with speech but had otherwise been completely normal.” Despite the devastating diagnosis, Anna says “James was the calmest of us all, more concerned about our wellbeing than his own.” The current five-year survival rate for glioblastoma is less than five per cent. Sadly, almost a year after James’s diagnosis he passed away peacefully at Peter Mac. “We miss him more than words can describe, but we take great comfort in knowing that he was able to move on from this life in a hospital that did so much for him during such a challenging time. “Peter Mac were absolutely incredible with the care that they provided to James, but also with the support that they provided to us as a family. The youth cancer centre OnTrac (the Victorian Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Cancer Service) and the palliative care ward were particularly outstanding in this.” Anna hopes by sharing James’s story, she can help raise awareness for the importance of cancer research. “We are forever grateful to Peter Mac for everything they do, and hope that one day with enough research and funding glioblastoma will not be a terminal diagnosis, which is something that James had been particularly passionate about in the final months of his life.” Your support of Peter Mac helps our dedicated researchers discover more effective treatments and cures for all cancers so that families like Anna and James have more time together.

We are so fortunate to have such passionate supporters fundraising to support cancer research at Peter Mac. Take a look at what some of our #TeamPeterMac fundraisers have been getting up to lately. 1. Mrs Love's Greatest Shave! 2. @camp4cancer raised $70,000 for Peter Mac with their annual event. Thank you for your dedicated support each year 💜 3. Racing Rotto with Fergal, George and Fiachra 4. The Katie Potts Memorial Fundraiser raised over $63,000 in memory of Katie, who sadly passed away October 2022 from bowel cancer after being diagnosed at only 32. A beloved friend, sister, daughter, wife and mother. 💜 5. Oli's Army at the Paris Marathon. Oli's Army has collectively fundraised almost a quarter of a million dollars since 2021 through a variety of fundraising events! At the age of 31, much loved Oli was diagnosed and is continued to be treated at Peter Mac for late-stage metastatic bowel cancer. 6. Stadium Stomp 2024 - Something for Kate team as they braved the many stairs of the MCG. 7.