1,200 guests will attend the 4th Biaggio Signorelli Foundation Gala Dinner this evening, Wednesday 26 September 2012, at Darling Island Wharf Pyrmont in Sydney. The Gala dinner is hosted by Sydney’s award winning Doltone House to raise funds and awareness for the asbestos cancer of mesothelioma.
The Biaggio Signorelli foundation’s main aims are to raise awareness, early detection, treatment and a cure for the deadly cancer of mesothelioma which is caused by exposure to asbestos. The foundation was foundered by the Signorelli family to honour their father, the founder of the Doltone House Group, who sadly passed away in May 2008 from mesothelioma.
The foundation has been hugely successful by raising almost $1m and also providing funding of $300,000 to three different research fellowships over three years. One of the research fellowships funded was one that took place at the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute in Concord, Sydney. To add to these key achievements, the foundation also donated $125,000 to go towards the development of the National Guidelines for Diagnosis and Treatment of Mesothelioma.
Support like that provided by the Biaggio Signorelli Foundation to help win the fight against mesothelioma in Australia is extremely necessary and important. In 2010 mesothelioma claimed the lives of 642 people and the number of deaths caused by this fatal cancer is expected to rise. Thus a lot of help is needed in Australia’s attempt to put an end to the heartbreaking disease of mesothelioma.
