The Brainchild Foundation is a new organisation that helps kids with brain and spinal tumours.

The Brainchild Foundation is a charitable organisation, established in 2010, with the aim of helping children who are affected by brain and spinal cord tumours, and their families.

The organisation has five key objectives.

Awareness:
To raise awareness of brain and spinal tumours in children and to build a community of supporters committed to finding a cure.

Support:
To provide support to affected children and their families.

Research:
To promote ground-breaking research into the causes and treatments of these tumours.

Treatment:
To improve the treatment and outcomes for children with brain and spinal cord tumours.

Funding:
To raise funds to help achieve all of these critical activities.

The key person involved in setting up the Brainchild Foundation is Dr Martin Wood, a neurosurgeon from the Brisbane Mater Hospital, who is pioneering minimally invasive keyhole lumbar surgery, for spinal tumours.

Dr Wood’s technique minimises surgical trauma to soft tissues, as well as markedly reducing post operative complications. During lumbar discectomy, often overlying soft tissue is damaged, and with spinal fusions, bone grafts are taken from elsewhere in the body such as the hip.

Minimally invasive surgery can drastically reduce trauma and chronic pain using skilled tissue conservation methods.

Funds raised by The Brainchild Foundation will be used to provide greater access to support and accommodation for families needing help during their child's time in hospital, as well as to fund research into better understanding the biology and behaviour of childhood brain tumours.

Donations are tax deductible and an email receipt will be promptly sent for all donations. Donations can be made on-line, by phone, by snail mail, by fax, or you can leave a bequest.

All of the information is available at the website:

http://www.brainchild.org.au/ and you can direct email inquiries to: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it