Welcome to our organisation
Brain Tumour Alliance Australia (BTAA) is the only national brain tumour patient and caregiver organisation in Australia.
It was established in late 2008 by a group of brain tumour patients and current and former caregivers.
While welcoming the advice and input of specialists, BTAA seeks to represent the brain tumour community from the viewpoint of the patient, family and caregiver.
FREE HANDBOOK ... FREE HANDBOOK ... FREE HANDBOOK
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A free copy of the 76-page
US-produced "Primer of
Brain Tumors" (9th edition - 2010), with a special insert
linking various sections to Australian conditions, is available from
BTAA. Please click here to go to a request form or phone the FREECALL number: 1800 857 221 Note: Only one copy is available per Australian-resident brain tumour patient or family. |
| Are you looking for information about international or Australian brain tumour support groups? If so, then click here. |
| Important: Are you a brain tumour patient who is about to undergo an operation for a suspected primary malignant Grade III or Grade IV (glioblastoma) tumour? If so, you should read this FAQ about Gliolan. |
Donate to
Brain
Tumour Alliance Australia Inc:
Account name: Brain Tumour Alliance Australia. Commonwealth Bank. BSB:
06 2900. Account Number: 10603153. When making a transfer please also
send an email to secretary@btaa.org.au
notifying us of the transfer and your name and address. Sometimes the
Bank information can be rather obscure.
BTAA has been endorsed by the Australian Taxation Office as a Deductible Gift Recipient. ABN 97 733 801 179. Click here to download the relevant paperwork from the ATO.
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 BTAA had a display at the Brain Cancer Forum held in Sydney in May 2011. BTAA Chair Matt Pitt attended a similar meeting in Brisbane the day before. |
 The principal guest speaker Dr David A Reardon (USA) stopped by to talk to BTAA officials at the Sydney Forum. |
 Brain tumour survivors Sarah Mamalai and Bronwyn Cozens at the BTAA AGM 2010 read an article featuring how Bronwyn and her pet dog Lizzy-bette both had brain tumours at the same time. |
Latest news
28 January 2012: BTAA, in conjunction with the Sydney Neuro Oncology Group, is holding a free Brain Tumour Forum for patients, families and carers, at the Kolling Institute Auditorium, North Shore Hospital Campus, St Leonards, Sydney, between 4 p.m. and 8.10 p.m. on Thursday 8 March 2012. The Forum will commence with small group sharing meetings followed by free refreshments (courtesy NSPH) and a series of presentations. The principal guest will be Professor Martin van den Bent from the Netherlands and this will be the only opportunty during his Australian visit for patients and carers to meet and hear him speak.
Click here for more details and registration form. We can also send copies of the brochure below for distribution and promotion.
21 January 2012: The BTAA national committee met to discuss an agenda of over thirty items and set in train a number of important projects. Here is a photo of the meeting:
L-R: Mark, Matt, Kelly, MaryAnne, Susan. Denis, Catherine.
16 December 2011: The December 2011
BTAA E News is available here.
12 November 2011: BTAA has
uploaded a new resource
entitled "Fitness to drive for brain tumour patients - a personal
experience". Please advise us of other subjects you would like to see
covered by BTAA.
September 2011: The Spring
issue of the BTAA E News is available here.
19 June 2011: BTAA Winter 2011
E-News has been uploaded here.
10 May 2011: BTAA has
researched and uploaded an updated version of a one-page "Facts
About Brain Tumours" document, which can be downlopaded as a Word
document from here
and as a PDF file from here.
BTAA responds to
PBAC decision not to approve Avastin for recurrent glioma.
GLIOLAN alert:. BTAA
Secretary Denis Strangman was interviewed on ABC
Radio about Gliolan - the new therapy to guide neurosurgeons
towards a greater resection of a brain tumour.
Fact
Sheet about depression and brain tumours launched.
The national anti-depression group Beyond
Blue and Brain Tumour Alliance Australia have co-released a Fact Sheet
on the above subject. Go to: http://www.beyondblue.org.au/
index.aspx?link_id=7.980&tmp=
FileDownload&fid=1875