Your contribution fuels a patient-led survival system, not an advocacy or awareness campaign. Every dollar drives real-time action: helping patients move from shock to strategy through navigation and response systems, connecting them with experienced clinicians, and advancing national research into bile health, prevention, and early detection. We don’t fund talk or bureaucracy, we fund execution. If it doesn’t improve survival today, we don’t do it.
“A message from the battlefield →”
Co-Founder Steve Holmes
Your donation supports
$30 – Access to Vital Information
Your gift of $30 helps provide accurate, up-to-date information to patients and their caregivers—empowering them to better understand cholangiocarcinoma, treatment options, and how to navigate their cancer journey with confidence and clarity.
$50 – Patient & Caregiver Navigator Journal
Your gift of $50 funds the delivery of a specially designed navigator journal to someone facing cholangiocarcinoma. These journals are practical and emotional lifelines, helping patients and caregivers stay organised, track treatments, manage appointments, and reflect on their journey.
$100 – Connection Through Online Support Meetings
Your gift of $100 helps make it possible for patients and caregivers to attend our regular online support meetings. These safe spaces allow individuals to connect, share experiences, reduce isolation, and find comfort in a community that truly understands.and sharing patients journey.
$250 – Personal Peer Support
Your gift of $250 enables one-on-one peer-to-peer support via phone or video call. This personalised connection matches patients and caregivers with trained volunteers who have lived experience—offering empathy, guidance, and hope through every stage of diagnosis and treatment.
$500 – Research, Mentoring & Patient Advocacy
Your gift of $500 helps us run patient-mentor programs, maintain patient-endorsed medical registries, and fund research projects focused on improving treatment and survival outcomes. This support fuels progress for today’s patients and future generations.
Gifts in Wills (Bequests)
Leaving a Lasting Legacy
How a Bequest Can Help the Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia
By including a gift in your Will, known as a bequest, you can create a lasting impact in the fight against cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer). Your legacy will help fund vital research, raise awareness, and provide much-needed support for families facing this rare and devastating disease.
Even a small portion of your estate can make a meaningful difference. Bequests allow us to plan for the future with confidence and work toward our vision of earlier diagnosis, improved treatments, and greater hope for those affected.
There are different ways to leave a bequest, including:
- Pecuniary Bequest – a specific dollar amount.
- Residual Bequest – the remainder (or a percentage) of your estate after other gifts, taxes, and debts have been settled.
We strongly encourage you to speak with your family and seek professional legal advice when considering a bequest.
If you choose to include us in your Will, please let us know. We’d love the opportunity to thank you and acknowledge your generous commitment to a better future for those living with cholangiocarcinoma.
Our Lives Depend on It
When cancer hits, speed decides survival. Knowledge, clarity and precision save lives.
This Foundation exists because we lived it. We know what must be done. We built what didn’t exist.
We’re patient and caregiver led. Real expertise. No politics. No agendas.
We get zero government funding. We don’t spend your money on lobbying. We build what works now, today.
Most raise awareness. We’ve lived it — awareness doesn’t save lives.
Every system we design has one purpose: improve survival today.
We do not have the luxury of tomorrow.
We do not shy from the battlefield. We answer every patient’s call. We are leaders, not followers.
We are a foundation and a culture built to innovate and outpace cancer today, not someday.
That’s an important distinction.
That’s how we win.
Stage 4 Survivor, Founder
Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia
