The Telethon Adventurers

I am honoured and delighted to be a Patron for the Telethon Adventurers.

Headed by Rick Parish with Peter Wilson, the Telethon Adventures encapsulate the passion and integrity that inspires people to head out of their comfort zone and face a challenge, knowing that they are changing children’s lives.

I came to know Rick as his gorgeous 4 year old son Elliot battled the brain cancer medulloblastoma. While Elliot passed away in early 2011, Elliot’s legacy will be to provide brain cancer researchers with the equipment and funding they need to fight the war against this terrible disease.

Funds raised by the Adventurers have already bought state of the art imaging equipment for the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. They now have an ambitious target that will help us to add to our outstanding team of children’s cancer researchers, and form more international collaborations so that the best minds can work together to find a cure.

Researching the causes and seeking novel therapies is the only way forward with these devastating children’s cancers. WA, with its unique collaboration between the Telethon Institute and the Children’s Hospital Oncology ward, is able to participate in such research.

It means that children here, in our relative isolation, can receive care as good as anywhere in the world as well as participating in world class research to stop these cancers from killing children in the future.

I am proud to recommend them and hope that you too will support their outstanding efforts.

Professor Fiona Stanley AC