Thursday, 4th December Clinical Oncology Society of Australia 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting

The National Indigenous Cancer Network (NICaN) was launched in 2013. It encourages and supports collaboration in Indigenous cancer research and the delivery of services to Indigenous people with cancer, including carers and families. NICaN is a partnership between Menzies School of Health Research, the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet, the Lowitja Institute, Cancer Council Australia and Indigenous audiences, consumers, researchers and health professionals from a broad range of disciplines, service providers, private sector and government organisations. This session aims to foster new collaboration, enhance capacity and increase knowledge about cancer and Indigenous people nationally and internationally.  Networks and partnerships can bring together the combined expertise and efforts of many to focus on the critical challenge of cancer among Indigenous peoples. By enabling those who work in or are interested in this area to connect, communicate and collaborate, NICaN aims to encourage high quality cancer research and partnerships across the spectrum of Indigenous cancer: from prevention, to psychosocial and health services research aimed at improving the quality of life for survivors, their family and friends.

This breakfast session is free for conference delegates, but it’s important to register because we will be providing breakfast! You can register by selecting this breakfast session in the 'add-ons' section of the registration portal. 

Pierre Fabre Australia invite you to attend the scientific exchange on Optimising oral chemotherapy options in metastatic breast cancer. The key speaker is Professor Matti Aapro. 

This breakfast session is free for conference delegates, but it’s important to register because we will be providing breakfast! You can register by selecting this breakfast session in the 'add-ons' section of the registration portal. 

This symposium will outline the new advances in PET/CT looking at latest uses of FDG as well as addressing the new areas of advancement in the treatment of NET (neuro endocrine tumours) with Lutetium and uses of Ga 68. 

This breakfast session is free for conference delegates, but it’s important to register because we will be providing breakfast! You can register by selecting this breakfast session in the 'add-ons' section of the registration portal. 

• Sustainable models of palliative care in cancer: systems approaches and integration - Irene Higginson
• Institute of medicine recommendations for addressing the cancer care crisis in the United States - Laura Levit
• The killer defence - Peter Doherty

Chair: Todd Harper

• Barriers and access to cancer care: Where does ethics fit? - Mary McCabe
• Communicating about the costs of care - Fran Boyle
• Women’s experience of the cost of breast cancer treatment: the advocacy perspective - Maxine Morand
• The financial impact of a cancer diagnosis on patients and informal caregivers - Anna Ugalde
• When cancer changes your financial plans: early access to superannuation - Sarah Penman

Chair: Paul Mitchell

• A common sense approach to 'informed' consent. Practicable or pipe-dream? - Nikolajs Zeps
• Challenges to clinical trials in Australia - John Zalcberg OAM
• The future & challenges of lung cancer clinical trials - Nick Pavlakis
• Embedding GCP and clinical trial governance into routine clinical care – the challenges and solutions - Sophie Mepham

• Developing palliative care services in Uganda, Africa and Serbia - Julia Downing
• Medical Oncology Services in Thailand - Sumitra Thongprasert
• The International Pain Policy Fellowship: Responding to global inequities in cancer pain relief - Jim Cleary
• The long journey: A collaboration to improve access to palliative care in the developing world - Odette Spruyt
• Being culturally appropriate - Rajagopal M R

• Radiation Therapy – the most effective targeted therapy - Michael Poulsen
• Raising the profile of radiation oncology in the cancer community - the Targeting Cancer Campaign (Part 1) - Sandra Turner
• Raising the profile of radiation oncology in the cancer community - the Targeting Cancer Campaign (part 2) - John Stubbs
• Global Health, Global Cancer, and Radiation Oncology - Mary Gospodarowicz

Chair: Robert Thomas

• Australia’s national cancer work plan - Robert J S Thomas
• Achieving systems change – challenge of the real world - David Currow
• Shared care for cancer patients - Helen Zorbas
• The National Indigenous Cervical Screening Project: can we finally identify why Indigenous women fare worse with cervical cancer? (The Queensland linkage results) - Lisa Whop
• Ensuring the cancer workforce keeps pace with need: A policy imperative - Patsy Yates

Presenter:
Jim Bishop - Comprehensive Cancer Centres from an Australia perspective

Speakers:
Panel: Nicola Roxon, Robyn Ward, Ian Black, Donna Milne