Brain Cancer is tough. Too tough to navigate alone.

Andrew ‘Paddo’ Derrington was diagnosed with inoperable Grade 4 Glioblastoma — an aggressive brain tumour embedded deeply in his brain — after experiencing sudden weakness in his right arm and leg. 

At the time of his diagnosis, Paddo and his family were living in Cairns, where they quickly recognised the acute lack of support available to brain cancer patients and their families in regional centres, far from the expertise and coordinated medical resources of a big city.

Spurred on by this, Andrew, with the help of family and close friends, founded Paddo’s Foundation. The foundation aims to empower those affected by brain cancer to manage the disease on their terms, by funding specialist teams that provide emotional, operational and logistical support services whenever and wherever they are needed.

Devastatingly, just shy of seven months after his diagnosis and despite enduring intensive radiation therapy and debilitating chemotherapy, Paddo lost his battle with the disease. He had just turned 55.