2025 UQ Giving Day

UQ Giving Day

This year, QCGC Research has been selected as one of the fundraising causes for UQ Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising movement where we will be asking alumni and the community to make a gift towards a cause they are passionate about. This year, UQ Giving Day will be taking place on Wednesday 15 October 2025.

A donation to the Queensland Centre for Gynaecological Cancer will help our team to provide options to women with gynaecological cancer to enable them to make choices about their care, that suits their needs, and be able to live their best lives following cancer treatment.

Visit the Giving Day page here and help us save lives!

Accelerating Hope for Women with Cervical Cancer

Despite being preventable, cervical cancer will not be eradicated in Australia until 2080. Each year, more than 1,000 Australian women face this devastating disease, and one third will not survive. Treatment is often physically and emotionally gruelling, and screening rates remain low in key populations.

This UQ Giving Day, QCGC Research is calling on its community to help change the future for women diagnosed with cervical cancer.

We are raising $50,000 to secure 2,000 lab hours for a groundbreaking cervical cancer project – the only initiative of its kind currently underway in Australia. These lab hours will lay the foundation for developing a minimally invasive blood test to support earlier detection of cervical cancer, monitor treatment response and improve outcomes for women.

For every $10 donated to gynaecological cancer research through QCGC Research, an additional $10 will be matched by UQ and $10 by Cherish Women's Cancer Foundation (up to $20,000). That means your gift will be tripled, making three times the impact.

Together, we can give women with cervical cancer a better chance.

The difference you can make

$19 – to recognise the 19 Australian women who will be diagnosed with gynaecological cancer today.

$100 – to help find kinder, gentler and less invasive treatments for gynaecological cancer.

$500 – to help more women benefit from life-saving gynaecological cancer surgical trials.

$1,000 – to accelerate our research and help bring gynaecological cancer research and trial results to the public sooner.