STANTHORPE’S annual Pink Dinner drew a capacity crowd to hear guest speaker, Emeritus Professor Roger Willis give his perspective as a husband of a breast cancer sufferer.
Prof Willis also updated the dinner guests at the Queensland College of Wine Tourism on the state of research into the disease.
Zonta Stanthorpe president Judi Kelly described the speech as “very informative and very entertaining”.
Pink Ribbon Day is an annual Cancer Council fundraiser supporting the one in eight Queensland women who will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime.
In South West Queensland alone, more than 217 women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and about 37 die from the disease. It is the most common cancer diagnosed in Queensland women, and the second biggest cancer killer.
Handbags designed by a former Zonta member Margie Finlay were auctioned at the Stanthorpe event, with all the proceeds of the night going to breast cancer research.
Ms Finlay had designed the bags under her Funklash label before she was taken by the disease.
“Her family donated the bags and we auctioned them off,” Ms Kelly said.
