Just yesterday,
I was a person.
Today, I am a patient.

Just yesterday, I was a person.
Today, I am a patient.

Cholangiocarcinoma patient

We are you. So your aspirations and responsibilities are ours — and ours are yours.
Does what we do — now, today — benefit today’s patient — today?

Hello

My name is Steve Holmes — I’m a patient, survivor, and co-founder (with my wife Claire) of this patient-led, caregiver-powered foundation. I will now help guide you through this, so you can get the strongest possible start.

You didn’t plan for this diagnosis. No one does.
But now that you’re here, you need more than care.
You need a way to respond — and a community with the right culture to support that response.

We’re here to help you do that — with clarity, strategy, and strength.
Because treatment alone is not enough — it’s only half the story.

Never assume anything.
You have more within than you know.
This challenge will unlock and unleash it — if you allow it.

Your greatest strength—
To be open-minded and Willing without condition.

Your greatest asset —
It’s the lived expertise of patients, caregivers, and clinicians who’ve been to the edge… and built their way back.

We are built on that.
Built on what works.
And built on a culture to respond — and win.

“Just yesterday, I was a person. Today, I am a patient.
I must become the best patient I can possibly be — so I can become that person again.
— Steve Holmes

Your Response Pathways –
Choose Your Starting Point

I have Just been Diagnosed

You don’t know what you don’t know — but you absolutely must.

And you need to know it fast.
That’s where we come in. That’s your starting point.

➤  LET’S START YOUR RESPONSE

I’m Supporting Someone

They’re facing it — but so are you.
Support is more than showing up. It’s knowing what helps.
We’ll guide you to respond with clarity, confidence, and care.

➤ START HERE

I Want to Understand Cholangiocarcinoma

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is bile duct cancer —
also known as: ➤ Biliary Tract Cancer (BTC) ➤ Bile Duct Cancer (BDC)

We’ll help you understand the basics — because knowledge isn’t just power,
it’s the bridge to an effective response.

➤ LEARN MORE

I Want to Help or Partner

I understand what it takes. We don’t need spectators — we need builders.
Whether you’re here to fund, collaborate, or contribute, your action helps us grow, helps patients respond, and accelerates the breakthroughs that matter most.
Because support only matters if it helps today’s patient — today.

➤ CONNECT TO LEARN MORE

Become a Cholangio Challenger

Most campaigns raise awareness.
We built one that executes.
Cholangio Challengers turns action into survival.
Your steps become support. Your challenge becomes impact. Today.

➤ JOIN US

Join Light Australia Green

Most awareness campaigns don’t work at the patient coalface.
Light Australia Green was built to fix that.

It turns visibility into execution — powered by patients, caregivers, and healthcare teams leading a coordinated response.

➤ JOIN US

Support Our Foundation

Funding awareness is easy.
Funding execution is what matters. Funding that moves the needle.

➤ MAKE A DONATION

Cholangio Today

Email: Key updates, research, and campaign news focused on bile health and GI cancers across Australia.
Stay current. Stay connected. Stay effective.

➤ SIGN UP

How We Win

Rooted in a patient-led response culture, How We Win is the foundation’s blueprint for a survival system — born on the battlefield, not the boardroom.
Built from lived experience. Tested under pressure.
This is specific expertise — it must be engaged, it must be integrated.

We don’t deal in slogans. We build systems.
Everything we do must help today’s patient — today.
Because if it doesn’t — it’s nothing more than theatre.

➤ EXPLORE THE BLUE PRINT