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Sep 2, 2025, 09:04

Children’s Cancer Institute Marks Childhood Cancer Awareness Month with Fundraising Initiative

Children’s Cancer Institute shared a post on LinkedIn:

“September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time for us to honour all children diagnosed with cancer – and acknowledge the enormous impact childhood cancer has on children, their families, and the community.

At Children’s Cancer Institute, we believe a life should be long. That every child should get the chance to grow up, plan exciting futures, and live a life that is full of possibilities.

But sadly, cancer cuts life short for hundreds of children every year, before they’ve even had a chance to make their mark. In Australia alone, more than 1000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer every single year. And every week, three young lives will be lost to the disease.

For over 40 years, Children’s Cancer Institute has been conducting research into the causes, prevention and cure of childhood cancer – and we have made extraordinary progress. In the 1960s cancer was practically a death sentence in children, today, more than eight out of 10 children survive. But we won’t stop until every child can live a long, happy and healthy life.

So, if you share our belief that a life should be long, join us this September for Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and Donate Your Age. That’s $1 for every year that you have been lucky enough to live.

Donate Your Age not just about giving, it’s a chance to feel grateful for every precious year of life you’ve been given, while supporting the research that will one day find a cure for every child with cancer.

A life should be long.

Donate today here.”