1800 500 088 Sign up quickly and easily at worldsgreatestshave.com or call 1800 500 088 today. Use the tips and tools in your free kit and download the app to make the most of your hairy sacrifice. Earn special online badges as you fundraise and then shave or colour your hair at home, work or school. We’ll give you all the tools you need to get your fundraising off to a flying start – social posts, emails, online fundraising pages and heaps more. FAST FACTS • When combined, blood cancers are among the most frequently diagnosed cancers in the Australian community, and the most significant cause of non- preventable cancer death. • Blood cancer doesn’t discriminate – it can develop in anyone, of any age, at any time. • Right now, more than 110,000 Australians are living with a blood cancer or related disorders. • Research continues to make breakthroughs in blood cancer treatment, but we’ve still got a long way to go – some blood cancers have five-year survival rates of less than 25%. • Each year we run World’s Greatest Shave because Australian men, women and children are still being diagnosed with blood cancer, because the numbers are increasing, because we’re not there yet. • The Leukaemia Foundation stands with every Australian to cure and conquer every type of blood cancer, with care. Statistics sourced from: Insight Economics with Leukaemia Foundation (2019), State of the Nation: Blood Cancer in Australia WHAT Each March, more than 20,000 extraordinary Aussies help conquer blood cancer by getting sponsors to shave, wax, cut or colour their hair during the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave. People of all ages sign up – supported all the way by proud family, friends, colleagues and class mates. Some will have a personal connection to blood cancer, while other take part simply to have fun, tick a bucket list box and raise money for a good cause. WHY Blood cancer is on the rise in Australia. Over the past 10 years, incidence of blood cancer has increased by approximately 30% and every day another 41 Australians will be diagnosed. When you sign up and raise money as part of World’s Greatest Shave, you can make sure families facing blood cancer have a place to call home during treatment, someone to turn to, and access to the best possible care and treatment. You will also help Australia’s best and brightest blood cancer researchers in their quest to deliver rapid advancements in diagnosis, treatment and... ultimately — a cure. HOW SIGN UP NOW... AND SHAVE THE WORLD FROM BLOOD CANCER!

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1800 500 088

Sign up quickly and easily at worldsgreatestshave.com or call 1800 500 088 today.Use the tips and tools in your free kit and download the app to make the most of your hairy sacrifice.Earn special online badges as you fundraise and then shave or colour your hair at home, work or school.We’ll give you all the tools you need to get your fundraising off to a flying start – social posts, emails, online fundraising pages and heaps more.

FAST FACTS

• When combined, blood cancers are among the most frequently diagnosed cancers in the Australian community, and the most significant cause of non-preventable cancer death.

• Blood cancer doesn’t discriminate – it can develop in anyone, of any age, at any time.

• Right now, more than 110,000 Australians are living with a blood cancer or related disorders.

• Research continues to make breakthroughs in blood cancer treatment, but we’ve still got a long way to go – some blood cancers have five-year survival rates of less than 25%.

• Each year we run World’s Greatest Shave because Australian men, women and children are still being diagnosed with blood cancer, because the numbers are increasing, because we’re not there yet.

• The Leukaemia Foundation stands with every Australian to cure and conquer every type of blood cancer, with care.

Statistics sourced from: Insight Economics with Leukaemia Foundation (2019), State of the Nation: Blood Cancer in Australia

WHATEach March, more than 20,000 extraordinary Aussies help conquer blood cancer by getting sponsors to shave, wax, cut or colour their hair during the Leukaemia Foundation’s World’s Greatest Shave. People of all ages sign up – supported all the way by proud family, friends, colleagues and class mates. Some will have a personal connection to blood cancer, while other take part simply to have fun, tick a bucket list box and raise money for a good cause.

WHYBlood cancer is on the rise in Australia. Over the past 10 years, incidence of blood cancer has increased by approximately 30% and every day another 41 Australians will be diagnosed. When you sign up and raise money as part of World’s Greatest Shave, you can make sure families facing blood cancer have a place to call home during treatment, someone to turn to, and access to the best possible care and treatment. You will also help Australia’s best and brightest blood cancer researchers in their quest to deliver rapid advancements in diagnosis, treatment and... ultimately — a cure.

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