Maddie’s story: This is why I climb
February 25, 2021
2020 was a year like no other for so many. But throw a rare cancer diagnosis in and Maddie experienced a challenge like none she'd seen before.
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2020 was a year like no other for so many. But throw a rare cancer diagnosis in and Maddie experienced a challenge like none she'd seen before.
Read more arrow_forwardThere are many out there who work hard, pay the bills, and get to retire still with many years ahead and relatively good health. But there are also many Australians who are not quite as fortunate.
Read more arrow_forwardIn 2017, after having received a misdiagnosis many years prior, Patrick was given the news that he had an incredibly rare form of sarcoma cancer.
Read more arrow_forwardWhile mammograms have become routine aspects of life, rarely is anyone ready for an upsetting result. In 2012, when Simone Lovett, 56, went in for what she thought to be another routine assessment, she was left unsure when the results came back...
Read more arrow_forwardThis month it’s Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month. There are 4 main types of thyroid cancer: papillary (the most common type), follicular, medullary and anaplastic – the latter two being rare.
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Shannon is carer for his partner, Daniel who was diagnosed with Burkitt Lymphoma in 2014. Burkitt’s is a rare blood cancer that affects young people, and accounts for only 1% of adults with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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When you take on role that requires you to support people through difficult times you get involved with them in ways other jobs don’t allow. The privilege that comes with walking side by side in hard times and being part of that experience runs deep.
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25-year Vulva Cancer survivor Kath Mazzella OAM makes no bones about the fact that our inability to talk openly and accurately about Gynaecological Health is more embarrassing than the subject itself...
Read more arrow_forwardMost people I think are scared of the word cancer, but by this point I was relieved that doctors were finally believing me when I said I was in pain...
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