Discover Series: Cancer

What would you discover to help a child? At The Kids, our researchers are committed to Cancer research that makes a real difference.

Cancer is the number one killer of children due to disease in Australia with an average of three Australian children dying from cancer every week.

Leukaemia, brain tumours, melanoma and other rare cancers continue to shatter the lives of kids and their families.

For those children with brain tumours, current treatments of chemotherapy and radiotherapy are effective only to a certain extent and also cause damaging lifelong side effects.

Our Brain Tumour Research Team is using cutting-edge technology to discover new therapies that are more effective and less toxic, to not only increase survival rates, but quality of life after therapy too.

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Paediatric oncologist and researcher Dr Nick Gottardo is looking to uncover new drugs that might work against children's brain cancer.

He wants to cure as many kids as possible with the best quality of life.

He's a cancer survivor, diagnosed with a brain tumour at 13 years of age, something he describes as a devastating moment.

One day, he hopes there will be a cure for cancer that won't involve horrible chemotherapy.