Perth’s health, beauty and creative circles came together for the fifth annual Youth Lab and Pancare charity dinner to raise crucial funds for pancreatic cancer research.

Perth cosmetic doctor, specialist general practitioner, and co- founder and medical director of Youth Lab, Kate Jameson, hosted the sold-out event at Besk in West Leederville.

Now in its fifth year, the event has become one of Perth’s most anticipated charitable gatherings.

Dr Jameson founded the dinner following the loss of her mother to pancreatic cancer, a disease that remains one of Australia’s deadliest due to late detection and a lack of early symptoms.

That grief has since become a driving force behind her advocacy, reshaping how she thinks about health and prevention.

The evening featured remarks from Dr Jameson, a live auction of a stunning $1750 Kalis pearl necklace, a silent auction and a sale of original artwork raising a total of $35,000 with all proceeds directed to the Pancare Foundation in support of pancreatic cancer research and patient care.

It comes after early this year, researchers at Penn Medicine and Mayo Clinic published results from a new blood test capable of detecting pancreatic cancer correctly at a rate of more than 91 per cent.

The Avantect blood test launched in Australia in January.