Fight Cancer Foundation was established in 1989 as the Bone Marrow Donor Institute with the vision to give cancer patients a second chance of life. A concerned group of parents who had experienced first hand the devastation and helplessness of having a child with leukaemia, vowed to ensure that no other families would suffer the way they had suffered. Their mission was to establish a bone marrow donor registry in Australia, for patients with leukaemia and other blood cancers, who could not find a match within their own family. At the time, the only option was to search overseas registries, which was extremely expensive and there were often lengthy delays. Just over 20 years later, Fight Cancer Foundation is now a national charity, managing the BMDI Cord Blood Bank; providing support and hope for families at patient & carer accommodation centres; support for patients to cope with cancer through and after their treatments; and funding research that focuses on finding a cure to deliver our vision; giving cancer patients a second chance of life.