Our ambassadors
Our ambassadors play an active and vital role in helping to raise awareness in the community and media about pancreatic, liver, stomach, biliary and oesophageal cancers and promoting the work of the Foundation.
Georgia Love
Pancare Foundation National Ambassador
Pancreatic cancer advocate
The former Bachelorette star and media personality, tragically lost her mother to pancreatic cancer only six months after diagnosis in 2016.
“I believe it’s vital to create awareness around this brutal disease and hopefully do some good and make a change for people like myself and my family, but also to hopefully stop others from having to go through the same thing.
“I lost my beautiful Mum to pancreatic cancer when she was just 60, so I have seen firsthand the devastation this insidious disease can bring to sufferers and their loved ones. I don’t want anyone to have to know how it feels, so I am really dedicated to finding an early detection method so we can change the terrible statistics around this type of cancer.”
Georgia is passionate about raising awareness of this devastating killer and actively supports Pancare through media commitments to enhance awareness.
For media enquiries on Georgia Love as our National Ambassador, contact Elizabeth Andrew.
Phil Jones
Pancare Foundation Community Ambassador
Pancreatic cancer advocate
Phil Jones, Commonwealth Games Bronze Medal winner in 2018 and lawn bowls champion, narrowly escaped a pancreatic cancer diagnosis through the early detection of an aggressive pre-cancerous cyst, resulting in preventative surgery – Whipple procedure.
“I know how lucky I am. The more I learn about pancreatic cancer, the outcomes for Australians diagnosed with the disease, and the lack of options available to them, the luckier I feel and the more I want to help.
I’m committed to helping Pancare Foundation raise awareness of the signs and symptoms of upper GI cancers. I am committed to helping empower people to listen to their bodies when things don’t seem right, and to take action, to ask questions and hopefully get answers, so that they have a greater chance of survival like I did.”
Phil is active within the bowls community and will use his significant influence within the sport, and the wider community, to help raise awareness of the cause as a Pancare Foundation Community Ambassador.
Michael Hill
Pancare Foundation Community Ambassador
Biliary cancer advocate
Michael Hill, successful former State cricketer for Victoria, Tasmania and The Melbourne Renegades and Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League, is a passionate advocate for Australians affected by biliary cancer after losing his beloved father Geoffrey to the disease in December 2016 after an 18th month battle.
Michael has fostered an impactful partnership between Pancare Foundation and employer Advent Security, where he is Business Manager, and actively helps raise awareness for the cause as a Pancare Foundation Community Ambassador.
“With some of the lowest survival rates out of all the major cancers, it’s our shared mission to improve survival and support for Australians diagnosed with upper GI cancers. I lost my father to this horrific disease and I’m keen to make an impact however big or small that can be.”
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