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22.01.2022 GERALDTON CBD CANCER COUNCIL CENTRE AIMING TO CLOSE THE CITY REGIONAL SURVIVAL GAP March 30, 2021 It was a change to the skin in her cleavage that prompted Geraldton hairdresser Stacey Keeffe to go to her GP.... After several courses of antibiotics, four ultrasounds and multiple return visits, she was eventually sent for a mammogram which led to a diagnosis of stage two breast cancer. "I continued to return to the doctor because I knew something was not right," Ms Keeffe said. Even then, the news came as a shock for the 37-year-old. "It is like your world stops all of a sudden," she said. It was good medicine that, almost two years on, has seen her declared cancer free. Read the full article here: https://www.abc.net.au//geraldton-cancer-centre-/100036442

20.01.2022 PERKINS RESEARCHERS FIND GENE FOR DEADLIEST BREAST CANCER March 31, 2021 A new cancer-causing gene and protein which creates highly aggressive hard to treat breast cancers has been discovered by cancer researchers at the Harry Perkins Institute.... The discovery has been published in the world renown Nature Communications journal. A team of researchers lead by Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort, Perkins’ Cancer Program Head and Group Leader for Cancer Epigenetics, made the discovery after analysing a major collection of data from Stanford USA of thousands of breast cancers. Pilar said her team looked at the hormone receptor positive cancers with the worst outcomes and analysed how they were different from cancers with better survival rates. Read the full article here: https://perkins.org.au/perkins-researchers-find-gene-for-d/

17.01.2022 Cancer and treatment is exhausting. There are days you feel you have nothing left in the tank. Rest as much as you can and ask for help when you need it.

01.01.2022 Hugs to all cWA Warriors, Survivors and Supporters!