01/09/2026
What if we could make a cancer disappear? We're about to find out.
Australia is on track to become the first country in the world to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health problem.
The proof is already here. In 1991, around 13 in every 100,000 women in Australia were diagnosed with cervical cancer each year. By 2021 that had fallen to 6.3, and for the first time since records began in 1982, not a single person under 25 was diagnosed.
That didn't happen by chance. It took decades of research, a national screening program, a world-first vaccination program, and people who refused to accept the way things were.
This is what's possible when we back brilliant minds and dare to ask "what if?"
And it's just the beginning. Cure Cancer has funded 16 gynaecological cancer projects so far, because the other cancers in this group are still waiting for their turn. Ovarian cancer still has a five-year survival rate of just 49%.
Imagine what the next breakthrough could do. Back the next breakthrough before it breaks through.
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Source: Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing; Centre for Research Excellence in Cervical Cancer Control, 2025.