Felicity's Wish Foundation
Researchers may be closer to providing a more effective treatment for a breast cancer that liks more young women than any other cancer - but they are also helping to fulfil Felicity's Wish.
When Felicity Purcell died of breast cancer at only 33, little did her family know that Princess Alexandra Hospital researchers were at the final stages of testing a new treatment.
The treatment currently being conducted is for a type of breast cancer known as Estrogen Receptor Negative or ER- for short.
ER- breast cancer claims more lives of women in the 25-45 age groups than any other cancer but sadly the treatments that work for ER+ patients do not offer the same hope for ER- and in advanced cases the best doctors can offer cancer patients is an extra two years.
The family started fundraising through the Felicity's Wish foundation - created in Felicity's honour - and last month donated $10,000 to the PA Research Foundation who have taken up the fight to support breast cancer research at the PAH.
The money was raised at their third annual cocktail party organised by Felicity's sister, Virginia Wilson.
"Mum also died from this disease so it is in our family," Virginia said.
"The more researchers learn about is the better - Felicity's Wish was to help save lives."
More than one million new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed globally every year and there are predictions the incidence of this disease will increase substanially between now and 2019.
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