#1: More time with loved ones
For Elizabeth, research means other families touched by lung cancer may have more time with their loved ones.
In honour of our 30th anniversary, we’re highlighting 30 reasons to donate to life-changing lung disease and lung cancer research. These reasons are being shared through the compelling stories of those affected, and by the researchers we support who are working tirelessly to discover life-saving breakthroughs. With emerging evidence of permanent lung damage in COVID-19 patients, now more than ever, we need to invest in ground-breaking lung health research.
Together, we can change lives and give hope for a brighter future. Research saves lives and gives hope for a cure.
30 Reasons for Research
From October 2020 through to April 2021, we will gradually unveil 30 Reasons for Research from our inspiring community. We encourage anyone and everyone to share their #Reason4Research through the Instagram feed below. Together we can save lives and give hope for a cure.
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#2: Growing old with my husband
For Cobey, research means the chance to grow old with her husband and hope for a cure.
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#3: Watching my son grow up
For Ethan’s Mum, Lauren, research means having a healthy boy who can live until he is old and grey with a rocking chair on a porch somewhere.
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#4: Spending more time with my family
For Michel, research means being there for his daughters as a father and for their kids’ as a grandfather.
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#5: Improving the lives of patients
For Dr Laura Glenn, research means answering clinical questions using rigorous processes to generate evidence-based solutions.
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#6: Improving treatment and patient health
For Dr Afaf Abed, research means exploring the evidence patiently in order to improve patient health.
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#7: Understanding and advancing patients care
For Dr Vanessa Brunelli, research means the ability to develop a better understanding of the needs and wants of lung cancer patients within her care.
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#8: Life-saving treatment
For Lachlan, research means the treatment that is saving his life can continue to improve.
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#9: Hope for future generations
For Dr Clare Weeden, research means everything. It means hope for the next generation of lung cancer patients.
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#10: Improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes
For Dr Christian Osadnik, research means unifying expert insights from patients, healthcare professionals and researchers to improve delivery and health outcomes.
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#11: Live a "normal" life
For Zali, research means hope that she can live out her dreams of traveling the world and one day raising a family.
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#12: Watching our daughter live a long and happy life
For Shaun and Georgie, research into lung disease holds the key to allowing their girl to grow up, to do the everyday things most take for granted and to, one day, have her own family.
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#13: Having more time with family’
For Georgia, research into lung cancer means more treatment options to allow her, and other Australians in a similar situation, to spend more time with their children and family.
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#14: New treatments for lung diseases
For Dr Simone De Luca, research means a healthy and sustainable environment for future generations.
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#15: To find a cure
For Tegan, research means longer life expectancy, more effective treatments and to one day find a cure.
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#16: Discovery of the new and unknown
For Dr Venessa Chin, research means the discovery of the new and unknown and that one day there will be a cure for lung cancer.
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#17: To see my grandchildren grow up
For Bill, research means more time to see his grandchildren grow. And research means hope … hope for greater understanding of lung disease, and of better medications to deal with it.
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#18: Improve quality of life for patients
For Tylah Miles, research means hope that patients can live a long and happy life with their loved ones.
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#19: Solving a piece of the puzzle that helps to improve the lives of patients
For A/Prof Lucy Morgan, research means finding a piece of the puzzle that helps to improve the lives of her patients.
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#20: Improving quality of life & prognosis
For Dr Yet Hong Khor, research means a chance to improve the quality of life and prognosis for pulmonary fibrosis patients.
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#21: More time with friends
For Clayton, research means hope of an improved quality of life, more time with friends and ultimately, a cure for all lung diseases.
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#22: Better quality of life
For Michelle, research means being able to control the progression of lung disease, and hope of a better quality of life.
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#23: Better treatment options for patients
For Dr Ian Yang, research means a better quality of life for COPD patients and better treatment options for all people living with a lung condition.
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#24:More time with family
For Ian, research means an improved quality of life and hope of a future free from lung disease.
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#25: Life without boundaries
For Freddy’s Mum, Melissa, research means hope that her son can have a normal, happy life without boundaries.
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#26: Life-changing treatment
For Anne, research means access to life-changing treatment that is helping her get back to doing the things she loves.
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#27: Accurate diagnosis
For Dr Matthew Parker, research means more accurate diagnosis and better treatment outcomes.
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#28: Hope for others
For Brennen and his family, research means hope that other families don’t have to experience losing a loved one to Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
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#29: Improved quality of life and survival for our patients
For Lung Foundation Australia's telephone support nurses, research means their patients can have access to new and affordable treatments that improve quality of life and survival.
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#30: Creating a legacy for a future without Pulmonary Fibrosis
For Di Cox, a gift towards lung health research meant creating a legacy for a future without Pulmonary Fibrosis.