Lukas’s story
Teamwork, tenacity and a dad’s unconditional love. This is Lukas’s story.
Teamwork, tenacity and a dad’s unconditional love. This is Lukas’s story.
It’s been another record breaking Good Friday Appeal, raising an extraordinary $22,328,154 for The Royal Children’s Hospital!
Willow, who has neuroblastoma, is the first child at the RCH to be signed up to an international trial testing a new treatment. Click here to read her story.
Dr Stacie Wang is a paediatric oncologist at the Children’s Cancer Centre in The Royal Children’s Hospital. The Good Friday Appeal proudly supports her CAR-T cell therapy research. To recognise her work in the lead up to the appeal, we spoke to Stacie about what it’s like to work with children dealing with cancer.
Three prosthetic legs see eight-year-old Milla running, swimming and enjoying everyday life. Click here to read her story.
As the adults hurried about their chores just before dinner, Caleb Sinaga had his eye on his next plaything. Click here to read his story.
Dr Elyse Passmore is a biomedical engineer working in the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute at the Royal Children’s Hospital. The Good Friday Appeal proudly supports her research into artificial intelligence (AI). To recognise her work in the lead up to the appeal, we spoke to Elyse about how AI is making waves in the world of healthcare.
It took nine months of riding a merry-go-round of recurrent sickness and visits to doctors before the sinister secret growing at the back of Ayla’s brain was finally revealed. Click here to read her story.
Almost a year after being diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Aliyana hopes to start ticking things off her ever-growing “after cancer to-do list”. Click here to read her story.
Associate Professor Valerie Sung has worked at the RCH as a junior doctor since 2001, and as a general paediatrician since 2010. She has a passion for caring for deaf and hard-of-hearing children. Her research on childhood hearing loss is proudly supported by the Good Friday Appeal.