Who we are
Icon Cancer Foundation is made up of passionate people who are dedicated to changing the lives of cancer patients and their families through improving access to cancer clinical trials and research.
Our mission
To promote, initiate and fund innovative research to give cancer patients and communities a better, brighter, and healthy future.
Our history
Icon Cancer Foundation (ICF) is a not-for-profit charity. We work with Icon Cancer Centre’s national network of doctors and healthcare professionals to fund their vital cancer research.
ICF was founded more than 30 years ago to support cancer research and some serious non-cancerous health conditions. Its mission has always remained the same – to promote and fund innovative research to give patients a longer, better life.
In 2015 ICF expanded its research, and this growth has continued. Notably in 2021, more doctors and staff joined ICF’s independent research program.
ICF fully funds this independent research program in Australia. ICF’s research sits alongside but is separate to Icon Oncology Group’s global clinical trials program, which is backed by international industry partnerships.
For more information on cancer clinical trials run, please visit the Icon Cancer Centre website.
Our research not only benefits patients now, but also helps advance future treatments, benefitting the broader community. We also explore how cancer treatments can help manage other serious health conditions, such as Parkinson’s Disease, which can impact on a person’s daily life.
We offer hope to those living with cancer and chronic illnesses now and in the future.
What makes us different?
Our research is shaped by the real experiences and knowledge of doctors and healthcare professionals in Icon Oncology Group’s global network. In Australia, they treat and care for hundreds of patients daily across more then 35 cancer centres.
Using this first-hand knowledge, our clinical teams develop cutting-edge research and clinical trials based on patients’ needs.
They focus on finding better and innovative treatments, understanding diseases more deeply and improving how we detect and diagnose medical conditions.
Our research is independent, and patient centred. Led by a dedicated group of doctors and healthcare professionals at Icon Cancer Centre, we are investigating treatments that might otherwise not be explored.
Importantly, we take steps to make sure our trials are conducted ethically and meet the highest quality standards.
Dr Kevin So
“TREMOR is a welcome and exciting clinical trial for the many Australians and people across the world impacted by essential tremor and Parkinson’s disease.”
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Dr Angela Yates
"If there is something that I can do to advance cancer treatment and make the lives of patients better, then I don’t need any more motivation than that."
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Dr Andrew See
"We can’t evolve the way we treat cancer without clinical trials, your support will help us help patients today and far into the future."
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