TeamTeens

Thanks and hello!

We’re walking in this event to meet the community of people affected by lung cancer, but if we raise  a few dollars for research on top of that, that’s amazing. We’re really grateful for all the support we’ve received so far – whether donations to this walk, or kind messages and offers of support we’ve received over the first year of mum’s cancer journey.

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Anna here. My family is walking for my mum who is living with Stage 4 lung cancer. Mum is an otherwise super healthy human. She's in her early 60s, always exercised, never smoked, and always had an excellent Mediterranean diet! The only reason she found out about her cancer was because she had a sore back.

Mum was diagnosed in August 2023 and this time last year, we were all really uncertain of our future with mum. BUT the amazing doctors at Peter Mac got her onto some incredible medicine that has drastically stopped the spread of tumours in her body. The drug is still in trials, but we have learned of many amazing stories of survival thanks to it.

Mum is living her normal life at the moment, teaching, gardening, walking every day. The cancer is still there but her outlook is now years, rather than months. I've still got my best friend by my side because of the research that the Lung Foundation has supported. And with lung cancer the most common cause of all cancer-related death in Australia, the Foundation's research is really important!

There are over 15,000 Australians living with lung cancer. It is Australia’s most common cause of all cancer-related deaths. We don't hear about it as much as other cancers, and it often goes undetected until it's late stages.