PA's Greatest Morning Tea - MAY 2010
 Ready, steady cook! - PA staff and Foundation friends joined in morning teas for cancer research!
Princess Alexandra Hospital’s Andrea Hinckley joined fellow occupational therapists Laura Worley and Christine Cullen in cooking up a storm for the PA Research Foundation’s inaugural Bake Off - May 2010.
It may have been an all-male line up for the scone eating competition to fight cancer – but it was the women who won hands down at the bake off judged by Network Ten’s Dominique Rizzo of
 The bake off and scone eating competition were part of the PA Hospital’s Greatest Morning Tea with 100 per cent of funds raised going toward projects funded by the PA Research Foundation – so it was no wonder that staff from all areas of the hospital cooked up a storm.
PA Research Foundation Chief Executive Officer Nicolas Allen described the morning tea a delicious success, with all entries cut up and sold for a gold coin donation.
"Unfortunately cancer is a disease that will affect two in three of us by the time we are 85 years old," Mr Allen said.
"The PAH is famous for its cancer research. 
We are home to the first ever cancer vaccine - Gardisil - which is now saving millions of lives around the world.
"We do research here into prostate cancer and we are home to the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre Queensland – one of only two in the country.
"We have just had a breakthrough in leukemia research – our researchers have discovered a gene that is a leukemia growth factor which means that they can now try to stop the cells from growing.
"Our breast cancer researchers are looking into
the mysterious cancer cluster in the old ABC
building investigating a link between virus and
cancer – so there are many projects that
need our funding support."
For the record, PAH’s Ian Spain from the hospital’s mental health services demolished five scones, which he cut and covered with cream before eating, in record time.
We think he might need counselling before he can face another scone.
Throughout May, hospital departments were also invited to host their own morning teas to raise money for the PA Research Foundation.
The department that raised the most money was Radiation Oncology – PAH Centre, with a total of $552.25.
PA's Greatest Morning Tea will be back in May 2011 - we look forward to another great cook off!
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