Binny Dickinson rocked by brother Neil Streeter’s terminal cancer diagnosis

A selfless brother who has been caring for his sister for decades has been rocked by his own health crisis. Now his friends and family are rallying around for one final, grand gesture.

Neil Streeter has been caring for his sister, Binny Dickinson, whose life has been rocked by multiple traumas including watching her cousin and adoptive mother die at the shocking Strathfield Massacre. But now he is facing his own shocking health crisis.

A selfless brother who has spent decades caring for his sister has now been rocked by a shocking terminal cancer diagnosis of his own.

After spending the past 30 years caring for his half-sister Binny Dickinson, Gladstone man Neil Streeter has been given less than 18 months to live.

In April, 2022, Neil went from being a fit and healthy man to being diagnosed with bile duct cancer.

After undergoing treatment and surgery to have the cancer removed he was given the all clear in April, 2023.

However, during a routine check up two months later it was revealed the cancer had made a devastating come back.

A lemon sized tumour had grown in his liver along with other inoperable growths in his abdomen.

Neil was given 18 months to live.

“When the phone call came through I could tell (it was bad news) in the specialist’s voice, and I just lost it, it was the one time I couldn’t be tough,” Binny said.

Now friends and family are rallying around the generous man – who is being treated in Bundaberg – to raise money for his home renovation.

Binny and Neil are the best of friends, and had planned to save up for a caravan to travel before the terminal diagnosis.

Binny said she and Neil have been overwhelmed by the response, with more than $2000 raised in one week.

She said the pair had become best mates after they met when she was in her 30s.

“His whole life has been worrying about me, giving me the best of everything, and I could not have done it without his help,” Binny said.

Born with Crohn‘s disease, Binny received an ileostomy bag at 24 years-old.

At 33 she was diagnosed with epilepsy – preventing her from living alone or driving, at 34 she underwent a radical hysterectomy for debilitating endometriosis, and has also undergone multiple reconstructive bowel surgeries.

On top of this, at the age of 20 Binny witnessed her cousin’s shooting death during the Strathfield Massacre.

Binny’s adoptive mother, Carol Dickinson also died during the shooting after she desperately threw herself over her daughter.

Binny said when Neil learned of the terminal diagnosis his thoughts immediately went to those he would leave behind.

“He was straight away thinking of everyone else except himself,” Binny said.

“He said to me ‘I just want to know you and Mum are going to be okay, then I’m right to go’.”

Neil asked Binny to call those close to him to deliver the news.

“It broke my heart to tell his mum over the phone that her son was dying,” she said.

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Neil and his mother Yvonne Bayliss who Binny credits with ongoing, unfailing support of the pair.

When a friend began a GoFundMe, despite the sibling’s protests, the siblings were floored by the response.

“We are unbelievably humbled by what people have donated already,” Binny said.

Many questions remain for Binny’s future as she faces a life without Neil but the pair are hoping through the support of NDIS, family, friends and donations she will be able to go on living in their home.

The home is in need of a wheelchair ramp for both Binny and Neil, along with dozens of other smaller repair jobs.

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