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Time for a cuppa to help beat cancer!

Set a date, gather your mates and pop the kettle on – it’s time to raise our cups and tip the balance in the fight against cancer as part of Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. Cancer Council’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea is enjoyed by more than a million people each year, and collectively over more than…

Join us on World Cancer Day

Dear Editor, This Wednesday is World Cancer Day, an international day of action in the fight against cancer. World Cancer Day takes place on February 4 every year to raise awareness and inspire change. This year’s theme is ‘Not beyond us’ signifying the things that we can do as individuals and a community to prevent…

Queenslanders ready to run down cancer in March

Cancer Council is enlisting Queenslanders to push themselves one third further, faster, harder this March to help obliterate cancer once and for all. The organisation’s newest fundraising initiative, the March Charge, invites Queenslanders to sign up and run as many kilometres as possible during the month of March to help beat cancer. Cancer Council Queensland…

Thanks a bunch Queensland – Coles raises a blooming $487,000 for Cancer Council’s Daffodil Day!

Coles supermarkets and Coles Express are celebrating a record-breaking fundraising effort after raising their greatest amount ever, more than $2.8 million nationally for this year’s Daffodil Day campaign. In Queensland alone, Coles supermarkets and Coles Express customers helped to raise a blooming $487,306 throughout the Cancer Council campaign in August. Over the past 19 years,…

Relay For Life 2014 raises $4m for Cancer Council Queensland

Around 39,000 Queenslanders walked to give hope at Relay For Life events across the state this year – raising more than $4 million, and in turn, changing the lives of those impacted by cancer. With the help of a dedicated army of volunteers and supporters, Cancer Council Queensland held 48 Relay For Life events throughout…

Dom Rizzo dons pink to take on women’s cancers!

Celebrity Chef Dominique Rizzo has added a dash of pink this October to help Cancer Council take on women’s cancers as a national ambassador for pink month! Dom’s announcement as national ambassador for Pink Ribbon Day and Pink Ribbon fundraising coincides with the opening of her latest project in Banyo, Putia Pure Food Kitchen. Dom…

Bloggers unite in pink to take on women’s cancers!

Cancer Council is inviting bloggers across the country to unite in pink this October and help the one in six Queensland women who will be diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer in their lifetime. Around 3900 Queensland women will be diagnosed with breast or gynaecological cancer this year, and about 800 will die from these…

Cancer Council launches prostate cancer call-in

Queensland men affected by prostate cancer are being urged to reach out for support as Cancer Council launches a dedicated prostate cancer call-in day on their Helpline, on September 24. New data shows only 20 per cent of Brisbane callers to the Helpline so far this year were men, prompting Cancer Council Queensland to set…

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