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THE BARWON Health Foundation is calling on the local community to give the gift of hope this spring by supporting cancer patients in the region.<\/p>\n

The local not-for-profit is hoping to raise enough funds during their Spring Appeal to purchase video endoscope tower radiotherapy equipment to help care and treat those receiving radiotherapy.<\/p>\n

A video endoscope tower uses state-of-the-art technology to provide greatly enhanced resolution for cancer scanning.<\/p>\n

The equipment allows clinicians to properly access the patient’s cancer, pre and post radiotherapy treatments and help to treat patients more precisely and efficiently.<\/p>\n

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Wendy West and her husband Dave.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Barwon Health Foundation executive director, Zoe Waters said the importance of such equipment and clinical trials at Barwon Health is evident in the story of Geelong local Wendy West.<\/p>\n

“Very few people are ever discharged from palliative care, but Wendy West is one such patient.<\/p>\n

“She credits a Barwon Health clinical cancer trial for keeping her alive.<\/p>\n

“In December 2021 Wendy thought she wouldn’t ring in the new year.<\/p>\n

“Now nineteen months on, Wendy has been discharged from the Palliative Care Service<\/p>\n

“Wendy’s story shows that clinical trials and cancer care can give hope where previously there may have been none.”<\/p>\n

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Wendy and her husband Dave got married just after her cancer diagnosis in December 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Ms West was the first person in Geelong to meet the criteria to undertake new clinical cancer trials, after discovering she had terminal cancer in July 2021.<\/p>\n

She said Barwon Health and its staff had helped give her the “greatest gift all\u2026 more time”.<\/p>\n

“There was a time in hospital when I had the most extreme pain in the whole of my body, thinking I was going to die there and then.<\/p>\n

“Four nurses came running in reassuring me they would not leave me and that I was not going to die.<\/p>\n

“I looked into their eyes, and I could see tears and pure compassion. I will never forget how much they cared for me, as if I was their own mother.<\/p>\n

“It’s the doctors, nurses and researchers of Barwon Health who have saved my life to date.<\/p>\n

“I urge you to help raise funds to support the amazing work that is taking place.<\/p>\n

“With every donation, you are helping patients like me live a longer, more fulfilling life.”<\/p>\n

Donate online at www.barwonhealthfoundation.org.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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