Ms Pamela Todd
Special interest - Rectal and metastatic colon cancer
Pamela is a retired community welfare worker. In 2004 she was diagnosed with early stage rectal cancer. She also cared for her late husband when he was diagnosed with metastatic colon cancer. Pamela is passionate about early detection and raising community awareness of colorectal cancer and in 2006 co-founded the Brisbane Bowel Cancer Support Group. She is also a Cancer Council Qld peer support volunteer and a hospital visitor at Royal Brisbane Oncology Outpatient and Day Treatment Unit. Being on the Steering Committee of Cancer Voices Queensland led to her consumer involvement with the AGITG.
Pamela says: 'I congratulate the AGITG for establishing the Consumer Advisory Panel. It is a privilege and my good fortune to be part of this dynamic organisation and to have the opportunity to review new clinical trial concepts and protocols, with quality of life issues as a priority, on behalf of and for the benefit of other gastro-intestinal patients and their families.'
'Being involved with the AGITG also holds special meaning for me and I take this opportunity to pay tribute to AGITG Scientific Advisory Committee member, the late A/Prof. Joe Tjandra, who in l987 gave my husband the opportunity of being included in his University of Melbourne cutting-edge monoclonal antibody therapy trial, which brought precious hope when there had been none.'