Meet the people behind The Christchurch Cancer Foundation
Clinical Advisors
Professor Frank Frizelle, Colorectal Surgeon
“The Christchurch Cancer Foundation has my full support in providing the assistance needed to ensure New Zealand is no longer left behind in the fight against cancer.As Professor of Colorectal Surgery at the University of Otago, Christchurch, Colorectal Surgeon at Christchurch Hospital, and Editor in Chief of the New Zealand Medical Journal, I see first-hand the benefits gained when research cohabitates alongside practice in the clinical setting.”
“The Christchurch Cancer Foundation has developed an irrefutable case outlining the need for development of a Comprehensive Cancer Centre here in Canterbury.“
Read Professor Frizelle’s paper on the role of research in cancer outcomes.
Professor Sir Murray Brennan, Oncological surgeon scientist, MSK Cancer Centre, New York
“Living with cancer is not the problem - dying of it is the problem. I believe that in the future many more New Zealanders will be ‘living with cancer’ rather than dying from it.
Because there are as many cancers as there are people with cancer, cancer treatment differs depending on the type of cancer. This is why it is so necessary, and advantageous, to have clinicians and research scientists working together in a single complex, where cancers are analysed and treatment strategies developed.”