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Every Patient Deserves a Pathway to Survival

By fundraising for us, you help ensure no patient faces cholangiocarcinoma alone. Your support provides vital resources, research funding, and real-time patient guidance through our Optimal Patient Response (OPR) framework.

Our Support Team:

Jill Brown, Light Australia Green, National Ambassador: 

Claire Holmes, Light Australia Green, Jills Assistant:

Join our Support Team:

We Need Plenty of Helpers so please put your hand up by contacting us.

Contacts

Jill Brown, Light Australia Green, National Ambassador: 

Claire Holmes
Contact Claire for all or new initiatives

Light Australia Green (LAGi)

Who We Are

A Patient-Led Research and Advocacy Initiative

The Cholangiocarcinoma Foundation Australia is transforming how we respond to cholangiocarcinoma. Being patient-led, we have a deep understanding of the challenge. We do not just advocate—we build solutions.

  • We provide structured response and support strategies for patients and their families.
  • We align the medical community to ensure a unified, effective approach.
  • We initiate and fund research that drives survival—today, not in ten years.
  • We initiate, fund, and drive research into early detection methodologies.
  • We advance the understanding and education of bile health as a critical factor in prevention and treatment.
  • We build effective, well-informed communities around these strategies.

By combining patient experience, scientific innovation, and medical collaboration, we are reshaping the future of cholangiocarcinoma detection, treatment, and survival.

What is Light Australia Green (LAGi)?

LAGi is an ongoing, year-round initiative that includes a series of events, culminating in World Cholangiocarcinoma Day, held on the third Thursday of February each year.

Light Australia Green is a nationwide movement uniting people around a common goal: a comprehensive annual campaign of green-themed events, symposiums, and innovative initiatives dedicated to raising awareness and driving engagement in:

  • Bile health
  • Bile duct cancer response strategies and processes

What Makes LAGi Different?

LAGi is not just about science, and not just about lived experience—it unites both.

It brings together patients, caregivers, families, medical and allied professionals, healthcare providers, researchers, and the science community into a single, coordinated effort.

This initiative creates a pathway where real-world experience meets professional expertise, ensuring the best knowledge, strategies, and resources directly contribute to better patient outcomes.

Mobilising Real Solutions

LAGi is not just about awareness—it is about actions that generate measurable outcomes. As a patient-led initiative, we do not have the luxury of time or kicking the can down the road.

This initiative activates and centralises collaboration, ensuring that the latest science and best practices are not just theoretical but actively applied to benefit patients today. The focus is clear—improving survival rates through strategic action.

Become a Cholangio Challenger: Turn your active lifestyle into helping patients regain theirs. From marathons to ping-pong to baking up a storm

The Foundation has created a home for members who have passed on but are still very much part of who we are and where we are headed – We all carry that responsibility together we carry the best of them forward to the benefit of those who follow.

Ben Kikuchi 2024 RIP
The Foundations Patient Liason Manager

Why Fundraise?

Cholangiocarcinoma is aggressive, with limited treatment options and low survival rates. We’re working to change that—but we need your help.

Since 2017, we’ve built Australia’s largest cholangiocarcinoma patient community, providing free, life-saving support to those who need it most. By raising funds, you directly contribute to:

✅ Expanding patient resources – including the OPR framework and Patient Navigator Journal
✅ Advancing research into early detection & treatment
✅ Ensuring no patient is left without guidance

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