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By Cassy Threadgate

Help me reach my goal of $1,000

I'm fundraising for a great cause!

I am taking part in a challenge to help find a cure for childhood cancer.

Every week, 20 kids will be diagnosed with cancer and on average 3 will lose their life. There is usually no known cause, treatment can go on for many years and it puts an enormous strain on family life.

Together, we can help find a cure for childhood cancer and create safer, more effective treatments.

Please DONATE NOW and support my challenge to change the lives of kids with cancer.

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A Reason For a Cure

Tuesday 24th Sep
Hello Everyone,
Thank you all for joining us for a great BBQ and raffle that Koppers has so kindly put on to help in financing some amazing research into children’s cancer.
All money made today will go to the Children's Cancer Institute of Australia (CCIA) who are striving to improve, and in some cases, save the lives of our future generations by leading the way with research into childhood cancer.
The reason we are here today is because an incident that has recently happened touched me, my family, and friends very deeply. Ena! My best friend’s 9-year-old was diagnosed with a life-threatening tumor in the brain.
Ena was born 9 months before my first son and the kids have grown up together. They were both beautiful healthy kids until Ena turned 4 and she was diagnosed with Wilms cancer, two tumours in her Kidney. She underwent a year of chemotherapy, radiation, and numerous surgeries during that year. Then on the last day of her treatment her 6-month-old sister was found to have the same cancer in her kidney and so this family’s journey through another year of chemo and surgeries began again.
Ena was 6 months off being 5 years in remission when she was here in Newcastle at a dance competition and visiting my family, when she had blurry vision and felt sick. She was rushed to hospital and after extensive tests was found to have a tumour in the brain the size of an apricot, shattering this family’s world again. It appears these beautiful young girls have likely been born with a gene that throws off tumours and until there is a cure it’s just a matter of time until its back again.
Ena was lucky enough to have two of the best surgeons in Australia come to Adelaide to operate on her, and successfully removed the tumour and Ena is now recovering and getting stronger every day.
Ena’s tumour is currently with the Children’s Cancer Institute for analysis to understand more about it and to tailor a treatment plan for her chemo and radiation in the coming weeks/months.
This is also the institute that will analyse both Ena’s and her now 4-year-old sister’s genes and try and find a way to switch off the gene that is causing these tumours to form. It may be like finding a needle in a haystack but with some financial help they may be able to develop a metal detector that finds needles. With out places like the CCIA doing this incredible research these girls and thousands of other children would have less hope.
I see the Children’s Cancer Institute as an insurance policy for all our children for their futures, just in case. Their goal is to cure it for good, “it’s not if, it’s when”. We are raising money for this foundation to help this cause and help kids like Ena have a future.
Thank you Koppers.
Libby.

Thank you to my Sponsors

$52.75

Toni Worthing

$972

Cassy Threadgate

$103.70

Christine Mckinnon

$55

Georg

Goal reached :)

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Anonymous

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Wayne Tacon

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Thuy Or Nikki Willcocks

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Steve Ryan

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Prashant Patel

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Ann & Judy Cole

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Richard Lyons

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Libby Obrien

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