Thank you for all your fantastic support of Girls Night In in 2006 and welcome to our first e-newsletter for 2007!

We can now announce that you helped us raise $2.73 million through our 2006 Girls Night In events.  This result has been positively overwhelming and means far more money than expected will be invested into research and support services for women's cancers in 2007.

In fact, so much has been planned for this year that we have decided to introduce this quarterly e-newsletter to let you know about the progress and investments made throughout the year.  We will also provide you with special updates and offers from our sponsors and planning tips to help you organise any of your social or fundraising events in the future.

Thank you once again for your support and best wishes to all the mothers for Mother's Day!

Kindest regards,

Jodie Wainwright - National Event Manager, Girls Night In

You may have heard the hype in the media recently about the new vaccine GARDASIL that is being introduced to prevent the human papillomavirus (HPV) that is the cause of up to 70% of cervical cancers.

Starting from April 2007, the Australian Government will provide GARDASIL free to all young women aged between 12 and 26 through the National HPV Vaccination Program.

Investigating whether the ELF5 gene causes breast cancer

Associate Professor Christopher Ormandy - Garvan Institute of Medical Research

Around 12,000 Australian women are diagnosed with breast cancer annually. While five-year relative survival for breast cancer now stands at around 88 percent, approximately half the women who develop breast cancer will ultimately die from the disease.  New treatments are required for those cancers that do not respond to current therapies, or which become resistant to these therapies. New molecular targets are needed for new treatments to be developed.

When the four friends (Elaine, Rose, Lynn Marie and Meriam) who worked at Sydney Airport decided that they would host their first Girls Night In in 2006, they knew they wanted to make some sort of splash.  With that in mind, they set about approaching all the local businesses around the Airport and spreading the word amongst the girls that a party was in the making.