We need to raise $65,000 by December 31 to fund Survivors Teaching Students. A life-saving program funded by people like you.
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Mandy is sharing her daughter Jaime’s story in the hope that one day, we won’t have to tell stories about women we lose to gynaecological cancer.
This will be Mandy’s second Christmas without her daughter Jaime.
Jaime passed away from cervical cancer in 2023. She left behind her mum and “best friend” Mandy, as well as two children, then 8-year-old Harrison and 3-year-old Indy.
The pain of losing Jaime is still so raw. And it’s made worse by the knowledge that Jaime might still be here today if her symptoms had been recognised earlier.
Instead, by the time Jaime was diagnosed, her cancer had spread. And in two short years, it destroyed her whole body.
Jaime couldn’t have a better mum than Mandy. And every medical student who sits in a classroom with Mandy will know it. They’ll feel the ferocity of Mandy’s love, and the anguish of her loss. And when this brave woman stands up to speak, here’s what she’ll tell them.
“Listen to your patients. Don’t dismiss anything they tell you. It just takes five minutes to listen and act – and you’ll have saved someone’s life.”
Please donate so women like Mandy can keep telling stories – until they don’t have to any more.
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Too many women in Australia lose their lives from gynaecological cancers
Today, 19 women will be diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer
6 women lose their life to a gynaecological cancer every day
Gynaecological cancers has surged by 25%, making it now the third most commonly diagnosed cancer among women
You can fund the work to prevent it
There’s so much about gynaecological cancers that can’t be learned from a textbook.
caregivers with personal experience of a gynaecological cancer into the classroom, sharing their stories so that medical students know what to look out for, and can diagnose these cancers before they spread and become more deadly.
Students may hear from a mum like Mandy, who can share what it feels like to lose someone they love to cancer. Or they may hear from a survivor or a woman still going through treatment.
These personal stories leave students with so much more than knowledge of the symptoms of gynaecological cancers – they leave students with a deeper understanding of how it impacts women and their families.
“After every presentation, the students tell us they have a new understanding of how important it is to listen to and take women’s concerns seriously.”
– Bree Stevens, Program Manager, Survivors Teaching Students
We want the next generation of health professionals to know that if a woman like Jaime comes to them with unclear symptoms like bloating, changes in urinary frequency, unexplained weight loss or constipation, that it may be a gynaecological cancer.
This christmas, you have the power to help share Jaime's story.
STS is entirely funded by people like you, and we need to raise $65,000 by December 31 so that this program can continue in 2026 and beyond.
Now is the time to make a difference
Your gift this holiday season funds education that is saving women's lives.
"It allows me to honour and carry on the legacy of my sister Kristen. She herself was an instrumental part of the program and she gained so much benefit from sharing her story, and felt like she was making such a difference. I feel the same way."
Elsa, STS Volunteer
"STS saves lives...All of us know that we are making a difference in the lives of others and, for that reason, continue to share our story no matter how difficult it can be."
Amanda, STS Volunteer
"The education and the empowering is happening in two directions; yes, the students, but to me it's so much more about strengthening the community of people living with gynaecological cancers."
Kristin, STS Volunteer
1. The Survivors Teaching Students program is under license to ANZGOG from the Ovarian Cancer Research Alliance in the USA.
