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Support my challenge to end pancreatic cancer
This September, I'm walking 75km for the 75 Australians who die from Pancreatic Cancer each week.
Pancreatic disease is deeply personal for our family. I carry a PRSS1 gene mutation - a rare hereditary condition that causes a dramatically increased risk of recurrent pancreatitis and significantly raises the lifetime risk of developing pancreatic cancer. This mutation has the potential to affect future generations, and it already has - including my brave and beautiful daughter, Emily.
Emily recently underwent a total pancreatectomy with islet autotransplantation (TPAIT) — a major, life-changing surgery that represents both the cost and courage of this disease.
Thankfully, Emily no longer has a pancreas, so her risk of developing pancreatic cancer is now gone. For me, the exact cancer risk is still unknown - but thanks to ongoing research, I’m benefiting from promising advances in early detection and monitoring.
While the journey hasn’t been easy, we’re incredibly grateful for the medical advances, specialists, and support that have helped us face it. But there’s still so much work to be done - in research, early detection, and treatment - to give families like ours a better future.
Thank you for reading our story, and for standing with us in this fight 💜
Pancreatic cancer is the toughest common cancer, and because early-stage pancreatic cancer rarely causes symptoms, the survival rates are devastating.
Right now, 12 Australians are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer every day. It is the 3rd biggest cancer killer in Australia.
But research can change this. Your support will fund groundbreaking pancreatic cancer research and improve survival rates.
So this September, I'm challenging myself to get up, get moving and walk 75km to fight this terrible disease.
Please make a donation to support me, and together...
We will remember them. We will honour them. We will fight for them.
