2024 Australian of the Year recipients Professor Georgina Long and Professor Richard Scolyer

'I stand here tonight as a terminal brain cancer patient. I'm only 57. I don't want to die, I love my life.'

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00:00 But eight months ago the stakes became personal. I stand here tonight as a

00:07 terminal brain cancer patient. I'm only 57. I don't want to die. I love my life, my

00:17 family, my work. I have so much more to do and to give. I'm one of the many thousands

00:27 of cancer patients who have travelled this path and thousands will follow. Devising this

00:34 world first experimental treatment for my type of brain cancer was bold. For me the

00:41 decision to take on Georgina's groundbreaking plan was a no-brainer. Here was an opportunity

00:49 for us to crack another incurable cancer and make a difference, if not for me, then for

00:55 others.

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