It’s been almost a year since Carrie Bickmore made headlines by donning a beanie at the Logies.
It wasn’t a fashion statement – The Project host used her Gold Logie win to draw attention to the need for greater awareness and funding to treat brain cancer, the disease responsible for killing her husband Greg Lange in 2010.
The speech encouraged a social media movement, #Beanies4BrainCancer and a few months later, Bickmore launched a brain cancer awareness foundation of the same name.
Now, the foundation has just hit a major milestone, donating $250,000 to the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation, news Bickmore proudly shared on Instagram.
Alongside the news Bickmore shared the story of Jeremie, a 26 year old man who lost his battle with brain cancer in February.
Currently the only way of diagnosing and monitoring brain cancer tumours is through MRI, which has limitations in giving doctors information about what is happening in the cells within the tumour.
The $250,000 grant will go towards a project to develop a simple and cheap blood test to diagnose brain cancer, that experts describe as a ‘game changer’. (Watch: Carrie Bickmore announced the milestone on The Project. Post continues after video.)