Louise Davie Charitable Trust’s 2026 Annual Dinner

Pancreatic cancer is an insidious disease due to the fact it is not diagnosed sufficiently early to allow those afflicted any realistic chance of survival. Being told one has pancreatic cancer amounts to a death sentence with just four percent still alive five years after diagnosis.

Pancreatic cancer doesn’t display visible symptoms until it is well advanced and has spread to other organs. It’s a disease which sneaks up on us and by the time it’s identified, most are already at a stage where time is short.

It will be the most lethal of cancers to New Zealanders within a decade and will remain so until an early diagnostic marker is found.

The Louise Davie Charitable Trust raises funds through events, private and public donations, business partnerships and bequests to set alight the research into finding that early indication.