You can live with cancer!
The possibility of you beating cancer, particularly in Australia, is increasing every year. There are over 1 million people alive in Australia who are either living with or have lived with cancer. Around 30 years ago, about 5 in 10 people survived for at least 5 years after their cancer diagnosis; more recent figures are closer to 7 in 10 people surviving at least 5 years. In 2019, it is estimated that cancer incidence (new diagnoses) rates will be close to 5% less than in 2008 and the estimated age-standardised cancer mortality rate for the Australian population is expected to reach a new low of 159 deaths per 100,000 persons. Understanding and avoiding the risk factors associated with cancer can help to reduce the chance of getting cancer, while cancer screening programs increase the likelihood of detecting cancer early, enabling better outcomes from treatments. Improvements in treatments and care are also important contributors to improvements in survival. More than likely you have come to this web site because you or someone close to you has recently been diagnosed with cancer. It is a very difficult time in your life and we would like to help.
(Source: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare)
Support Us
The Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation has been established to provide assistance to those persons with cancer. We welcome the support of individuals and community organisations.
Read MoreFundraise
You can now hold your own fundraising event – click below to see how you can help raise money for those suffering with cancer.
Read MoreAssistance
It is our intention to provide assistance to as many people with Cancer as possible. Please click to download the application form.
Read MoreThe Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation is committed to caring for those whose circumstances make their cancer journey less comfortable than it could be. We hope to make a difference. Thank you for taking the time to share our story.“She spent her life caring about others. Even throughout her own cancer journey her attention was always focused on what it was doing to her family and those around her rather than the impact it was having on herself. She was our guiding light. How we will navigate life’s path without her is anyone’s guess. However, be assured that we will always try to do it with the same dignity, determination and courage that she demonstrated throughout her life and none more than at the end of it.” –Reg KingLynne’s Story
about the foundation
The Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation has been established to provide assistance to those persons with cancer who find themselves in financial difficulty or who lack an appropriate support network.
The following are just some of the areas where the Foundation may become involved. To assist those who suffer financial hardship as a direct result of the cost of treatments or loss of income, or both.
The Foundation seeks to support individuals affected by cancer in three distinct ways:
• The financial underwriting of more effective treatments where the financial gap places them outside of the individual’s personal reach.
• Assistance to a personal carer in need of respite, by the provision of nursing care during their absence.
• To assist both carers and those with cancer to access as many legitimate support organisations as possible and provide a framework in which to communicate this information to others.
Supporting Good Cause
The Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation is a charity working to help those with cancer. The charity is registered with the Australian Taxation Department and all donations of AUD $2 or more are fully tax deductible.
Most Trusted Organisation
The administration is provided by a voluntary board of trustees. Therefore all money raised or donated to the Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation will be used to aid those suffering the effects of cancer.
Each Dollar Counts
All those associated with the foundation are volunteers and receive no payment, either direct or indirect, for their services. Such is our commitment to helping those embarking on a journey that we are all too familiar with.
Our Cases
“Our aim is to help as many people with Cancer who need financial and emotional support. To assist those who suffer financial hardship as a direct result of the cost of treatments or loss of income, or both. Assisting the people that would otherwise fall between the cracks without our help. We provide both financial and emotional support, medical equipment, treatments, and drugs to those who will not be able to afford them. There are many people in society who suffer unnecessary hardships because they, or someone they care for has contracted Cancer. Here are just a few examples of the wonderful people we have had the pleasure of working with previously.”
Ciara’s Story
At the end of 2017 we embarked on a campaign to raise money for a potentially lifesaving operation for Ciara.
Talin’s Story
In 2012 the Foundation, with the support of many wonderful people from the Shire, helped raise funds to aid a little boy called Talin Hawkins and his family.
Susan’s Story
“You have no way of knowing how important you are to people in my situation, and there are many of us. On behalf of myself and all those people like me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
2012 was filled with so much darkness and despair – until we met you. I want to thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for the love and kindness you have shown my daughter and I.
What helped me the most personally was the emotional support they gave me……….Reg was a great support, he’d been through it with his wife Lynne and knew what I was going through
Helping families struggling financially with a member of the family battling cancer is a cause not often in the spotlight and the Foundation offers practical help…It goes about its business without a lot of fuss or fanfare and you can see that every dollar raised goes directly to those that need it the most.
Andrew
Director of Business Services, Rema Tip Top Australia“You have no way of knowing how important you are to people in my situation, and there are many of us. On behalf of myself and all those people like me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Susan
Cancer survivorI just wanted to say how grateful we all are, to have the Lynne King foundation….Your foundation make such a difference to so MANY patients lives and we are so grateful that you exist.
Zoe
Cancer Care Coordinator from the Crown Princess Mary Cancer Care Center“I have been donating to the Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation since 2010 and donating on a monthly basis since 2013. It is such a wonderful cause. Reg and the team give so much to people who need it and I am happy to help them continue their good work”.
Paula
DonorLatest News
Local Matters
Exciting news! Our charity has been selected to participate in the fundraising initiative from Grill’d Lane Cove. Here’s how it works: each month, Grill’d…
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Foundation receives CommBank Community Donation
In early December 2020, Lisa Coates, Lynne King Trustee has gratefully accepted a donation from Michelle and the team at West Ryde Commonwealth Bank as…
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2020 Comedy for a Cause
On Saturday 7th March 2020 we held our very first “Comedy Night”. It was a fantastic night with plenty of laughs provided by comedians…
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The Lynne King Cancer Care Foundation is a charity working to help those with cancer. It was formed in the memory of Lynne King, who as a nurse spent much of her life caring for those with cancer. Suite 6.02, 3 Thomas Holt Drive, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113 (PO BOX 363, Macquarie Park, NSW 2113)
(02) 9878 7122
Latest News
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Local Matters
Exciting news! Our charity has been selected to participate…
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Foundation receives CommBank Community Donation
In early December 2020, Lisa Coates, Lynne King Trustee has…
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2020 Comedy for a Cause
On Saturday 7th March 2020 we held our very…