1976 - Children’s Cancer Institute Established
01/01/1976
The Children’s Cancer Institute (CCI) is founded, becoming the country’s first dedicated research institute for childhood cancer. Many CCI researchers and subsequent projects have been funded by The Kids’ Cancer Project.
1983 - Australia Joins Global Cancer Trials
01/01/1983
The world begins to collaborate in a bid to cure childhood cancer as Australia joins its counterparts by taking part in global clinical trials – all to improve childhood cancer treatments. Five-year survival rates of childhood cancer in Australia throughout the 1980s sits at approximately 65%.
1983 - Col Reynolds Visits Cancer Ward
01/01/1983
Sydney bus driver Col Reynolds takes a wrong turn and ended up adjacent to the Sydney Children’s Hospital in Camperdown. He gave way at a crossing to two young, bald kids with cancer, which prompted him to park the bus and head inside.
It altered the course of his life, and our organisation, forever.
It altered the course of his life, and our organisation, forever.
1986 - ANZCHOG Founded for Trial Access
01/01/1986
The Australian and New Zealand Children's Haematology/Oncology Group (ANZCHOG) was founded allowing children to participate in experimental therapies. The Kids’ Cancer Project and ANZCHOG would later formally join forces in 2016.