Current Projects/Initatives

The Crawford Rural Cancer Research Initiative

In 2008 the AH Crawford Cancer Treatment Society donated $450 000 over three years to Cancer Council Westerm Australia to provide opportunities for research that would specifically benefit country cancer patients in Western Australia.

The funds are to support cancer research aimed at improving understanding of the factors that lead to poorer outcome for WA country cancer patients, and to mechanisms, programs, processes or initiatives that will address such factors.

The grant was awarded to a large collaborative team cooridnated by Professor Jon Emery from the University of Western Australia, School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care.

Project title: Intervention to Redress Delay and Suboptimal Treatment in Rural Cancer Patients

Collaborative Team: UWA School of Primary, Aboriginal and Rural Health Care, UWA School of Surgery and Pathology, UWA School of Population Health, WA Insitute for Medical Research, Rural Clinical School of Western Australia, UWA School of Medicine and Pharmacology, Curtin University of Technology, Cancer Voices, Combined Universities Centre for Rural and Remote Health, Cambridge University, UK.

Priority-Driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme

The Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme is an innovative research funding scheme which brings together government and other funders of cancer research to collaboratively fund cancer research in Australia.  Cancer Australia established this annual project grant scheme to both better coordinate funding of priority-driven cancer research, as well as foster collaboration between cancer researchers to build Australia’s cancer research capacity.

Cancer Council Western Australia, under the banner of  Cancer Council Australia, is one of the funding partners for the scheme which is currently focusing on improving outcomes for people with one of the cancers which is among the most difficult to treat successfully, pancreatic cancer.