The Mark Hughes Foundation (MHF) is a charity formed in Newcastle by Mark and Kirralee Hughes following Mark's diagnosis with Brain Cancer in 2013. The Mark Hughes Foundation's mission is to raise much needed funds for research, to create awareness and support brain cancer patients and their families.

400
Approx 1200 Australians die of brain cancer each year

<25%
Brain cancer receives less than 5% of all federal gov. cancer research funding!

Kids
Brain cancer kills more children than any other disease

< 40
Brain cancer kills more Australians under 40 than any other cancer

21%
Brain cancer survival rates have increased just 1% over the past 30 years

2/10
Only 2 in 10 people diagnosed with brain cancer will survive at least 5 years

25 HRS
1600/year, or about one person every five hours is diagnosed with brain cancer
1 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2017. Australian Cancer Incidence and Mortality (ACIM) books. Canberra: AIHW. Five year averaged mortality all ages (2010-2014). 2 NHMRC Funded Research Into Cancer And Other Malignant Neoplasms 2000 – 2014 (published and accessed 2015). NHMRC Sources: Extracted from NHMRC research databases RGMS/RMIS/GMS as at Mar 14. 3 Cure brain cancer research of 1,010 nationally representative australian aduts aged 17+ July 2014
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Aug11
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Let's run, Sydney!! Join the World's Largest Fun Run on Sunday 13 August and fundraise for MHF.