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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Kelly Burke

‘This was her dream’: Olivia Newton-John’s legacy lives on at cancer research centre

Chloe Lattanzi, John Easterling and Olivia Newton-John are smiling at the camera and holding up a banner with the logo of Olivia Newton-John Wellness Walk and Research Run and of the cancer centre. They are surrounded by other people at the event
Olivia Newton-John with her daughter, Chloe Lattanzi, and husband, John Easterling, at a fundraising event for her cancer wellness and research centre in Melbourne. Photograph: Sam Tabone/WireImage

It’s not often a medical institute has to say it is unable to take calls because of overwhelming demand, but that was the case on Tuesday at Melbourne’s Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre, after the death of the 73-year-old singer and actor.

Newton-John has been one of Australia’s most high-profile campaigners for the advancement of cancer research and treatment since her initial diagnosis of breast cancer in 1992 at the age of 44.

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