My Writing
My deep connection to nature and unsatiated curiosity of how nature, things and people operate, translate through to aspects of what I write. My variety of publications are a product of my diverse career as medical researcher, animal behaviourist and biologist and my interest in too many topics.
My book about suicide prevention stems from my associated short article from 2019 which sustained a lot of interest (14,400 reads) with people globally. Prior to this I researched the suicide deaths of people in my home region over a ten-year period and contributed to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Suicide Deaths in Australia. I co-authored the Report to Coroner by Police officer in Event of a Possible Suicide and is instrumental in provision of lighting, fencing and Lifeline signs at a local suicide hotspot, however this is still a work in progress.
I am author of many book chapters about rock possums such as Mammals of Australia 4th Edition released 2023 and its Field Companion and The Biology of Australian Possums and Gliders, 2nd Edition. Popular magazines that I have published articles in include Nature Australia, Australian Geographic and Fishing Australia.
Published Books
My most recent book is the Paperback version of Stages of Suicide: How to Help your Mind published January 2024.
I self published this non-fiction book aimed at suicide prevention entitled: Stages of suicide : How to help your mind.
Read more about this book HERE.
In 2021 I self-published a Adventure Memoir Book
For more information about my book Wild: Life death encounters with wild animals CLICK HERE
This is full of my life-death encounters with wild animals involving sharks, buffalos, snakes, spiders and more.
To read about my Mammals of Australia book chapters about Rock Ringtail Possums and Scaly-tailed possums CLICK HERE.
You can read most of my publications that range from magazine articles to posts on a variety of topics ( from the mind to animal encounters to cancer experiences to childhood stories to the environment) to peer-reviewed scientific papers and book chapters.
Animal Behaviour
As a child my passion was discovering what makes animals tick and how they learn. My teacher animals were mainly dogs and horses.
Later I learnt how to start (horse-breaking) yearling racehorses from the Master Breaker John Drennan and began training my own horses. For more about my horse training CLICK HERE
Academic Career
My career involves animals and people. After completing a Bachelor of Science at Macquarie University, I completed Honours in Physiology and Pharmacology at UNSW.
Some of the more interesting projects I have worked on is a population and habitat viability study of wild-ranging koalas when working for Sydney University as a research assistant. My main contribution was the physiology component.
My obsession since a kid is the psychology of animals so I chose the most interesting wild mammal in Australia I could find to study for my PhD (Charles Darwin University) the elusive rock-haunting ringtail possum.
I extended my research project to include the little-known Scaly-tailed possum.
The publication I am most proud of describes the mating system of the highly social rock-haunting possum;
Next I began work on people at Menzies School of Health based in Darwin. The most fulfilling project was the evaluation of indigenous housing data. This was satisfying because my results led to the positive outcome of upgrading the indigenous housing across the Northern Territory. I co-wrote the paper;
Household infrastructure in Aboriginal communities and the implications for health improvement.
More animal work came next with a project aimed at sterilizing the house mouse in Australia via immunocontraception. My primary role at CSIRO as a Research Scientist was to produce the recombinant vector virus, test transmission mode of the virus in the lab, test species specificity and lead field work trips on wild populations in the Mallee, VIC.
After leaving Canberra and CSIRO, I retraining horses for a while and then started working in Mental health at a local hospital. An important project I worked on was suicide.
Photography
Dad gave me an instamatic camera when I was about ten and I fell in love with photography.
You can find and buy my photos at Getty I Stock Images at myfanwyjanewebb. My photos depict a range of content;
- Australian native animals
- Natural landscape (Kimberley, Northern Territory, Jervis Bay, Snowy Mountains, NZ, beaches)
- Environmental content (land clearing, snowy hydro scheme, drought, farming)
- Alpine (seasonal summer and snow-transport, landscape)
- Water (beaches, surfing, waves, water, creeks, swimming pools)
- Urban (city buildings, Sydney Harbour Icons)
- Flowers
- Horse Riding
I produced a Horse Diary and an Australian Outback Horse Calendar with my photographs horse-publications.
My Interests
Over the years I have continued to publish book chapters about my possum research and I’m usually starting a horse, training horses, or racing horses (endurance) or surfing.
Cancer Research
After finishing suicide research, I was diagnosed with cancer. This became the catalyst for my next phase of research which is now cancer research. I have an Conjoint Research position at the University of Newcastle (Australia) in the School of Medicine and Public Health. My current projects involve using natural compounds to combat cancer and using a novel chemical to reduce or prevent cognitive decline from chemo brain.
I developed a novel strategy to combat cancer using natural compounds that target the biochemical pathways that cancer hijacks and this is the most viewed publication of the SAGE Journal, Integrative Cancer Therapies :
You can listen to the Podcast with Dr Ralph Moss
I have a website aimed at helping people combat cancer. You can find this at: TargetCancerNaturally.com
My Cancer
In terms of health, I have successfully kicked the Breast Cancer to the curb, however…
….. I then discovered a primary melanoma in the scalp which was excised. Precautionary immunotherapy failed and I developed multiple melanoma nodules in the lung. My natural compounds and lifestyle now target this and there was no clinical trial available to me for my rare tumour mutation type.
I then became ineligible for any clinical trial because my melanoma nodules became no longer ‘in progression’ but are in regression! My suppression-centric anticancer strategy has destroyed two tumours by 100% and I only have two receding ones left in the lung. However….
even though the lung tumours seem under control, a wave of subcutaneous melanoma tumours settled in numerous parts of my body. My supplements and repurposed drugs seem to have possibly kept them relatively stable and maintained them for nine months as slow growing but I recently asked my surgeon to excise all of them after the wave of new malignant nodules seemed to have stopped.
This latest wave may have been a consequence of a lowered immune system after a rough year during 2022 of losing four family members in close succession.
To read more about targeting cancer naturally suppressing pathways by substances backed by science, visit TargetCancerNaturally.com.
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