CCWA Targeted Specific Funding

The Priority-driven Collaborative Cancer Research Scheme is an innovative annual national research project grant funding scheme which brings together government and other funders to collaboratively fund cancer research in Australia.

This funding scheme helps to: coordinate fudning of priority-driven cancer research at the national level; foster collaboration between cancer reserachers to build Australia's cancer reserach capactiy; and foster consumer participation in cancer research, from design to implementation.

The Chair provides academic leadership in clinical cancer research in WA and aims to increase the participation of local cancer patients in clinical trials of new cancer treatments.

The purpose of funding the Cancer Foundation Chair in Clinical Cancer Research is to improve the clinical care available to people diagnosed with cancer in Western Australia. There is compelling evidence that outcomes for patients are improved when they participate in clinical trials. A key vehicle therefore to improve outcomes in Western Australia is to actively promote clinical trials in the medical and general community. The means by which this may be achieved by the Chair are broken down into the following categories:

• Research
• Clinical trials
• Leadership
• Teaching
• Advice
• Representation
• Promotion

Headed by Prof Simone Pettigrew the purpose of the Cancer Council WA Cancer Prevention Research Unit (WACPRU) is to increase our understanding of individual and societal factors that increase the risk of cancer in the community, and, through this understanding, develop more effective policies and programs to reduce cancer risk in the community.