Ten years ago, radio and television presenter Carrie Bickmore donned a blue beanie on national television while accepting her Gold Logie and asked Australians to do the same to start a conversation about brain cancer.

Brain cancer reaches one Australian every five hours, kills more children than any other disease and more people aged under 40 than any other cancer, including her late husband Greg, who died in 2010.

"Throughout his cancer journey, he used to wear a lot of hats, and he used to wear a lot of beanies, and that was because he felt embarrassed about his scars and his head," Bickmore said in her 2015 speech.

"I want to get the nation talking about brain cancer. It receives next to no funding, which is ludicrous because without funding, more people are going to die."

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