Funds raised from the 2010pinkyellowblueball, together with funds raised through other major events and partnerships has enabled the FMC Foundation to spend nearly $600,000 on cancer research in the last financial year.

The FMC Foundation currently supports more than 15 areas of cancer investigation, and countless research projects, while also supporting patients through improved service and survivorship initiatives and driving the building of the new Flinders Centre for Innovation in Cancer incorporating the LIVESTRONG Cancer Research Centre.

We are pleased to announce funds raised by the 2010pinkyellowblueball, BrasOFF for Breast Cancer, Borneo for Breast  Cancer, Footing it for Flinders, Ride Like Crazy, and generous donations from the Fay Fuller Foundation and kind individual donors has helped provide: 

- On-going support to the Lyn Wrigley Phd Scholarship which is specialising in reconstructive breast surgery.

- Support for the purchase of new breast MRI system at Flinders Medical Centre, which is the most sensitive and accurate way of detecting cancer in young women.

- A $170,000 per year commitment for a new fellowship in translational cancer research.

- as well as providing over $300,000 in research funds to support research that will prevent cancer, develop new diagnostics that improve early detection and ways to enhance current treatments to optimise survival rates.

The FMC Foundation's seed funding has enabled some of these projects to obtain promising results to be able to go on to receive large national funding.

One such project is Professor David Watson's investigations into oesophageal cancer and improved treatments for its precursor Barratt's Oesophagus, which was supported by the FMC Foundation in 2010 with a $10,000 grant.

His project went on to receive more than $0.5 million in funding from the NHMRC to expand upon this research to ensure best possible outcomes for oesophageal cancer patients.

We look forward to announcing how the funds raised at this year's ball are spent, and to sharing with you the amazing research we have supported and will support in the future