Thursday, 3rd November Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2022

7:00AM - 8:45AM
Thursday, 3rd November
M1
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Chairs/facilitators: James Bond, Gail Garvey, Daniel Lindsay, Bena Brown, Rachael Jaenke

Description:

This session invites First Nations people with a lived experience of cancer, their families and interested health professionals, cancer researchers and policymakers involved in their care, to participate in a focused discussion to brainstorm and identify solutions for achieving the cancer survivorship priorities of this group. This session will report on the initial results of a First Nations Survivorship Delphi study to identify cancer survivorship priorities, and how important and achievable those priorities are. Identified barriers to achieving survivorship priorities will be reported, and potential solutions to these barriers prioritised during this session.

7:00AM - 8:45AM
Thursday, 3rd November
M2
Chairs: Penny Mackenzie & Darshit Thaker
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This breakfast session will be a facilitated discussion around the care of the older person with head and neck cancer, designed to engage the audience about the considerations, challenges and opportunities to improve interdisciplinary care in relation to the older person with cancer who has multiple comorbidities and is taking multiple medications.

Panellists:

  • Dr Ruth Hubbard, Consultant Geriatrician, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane
  • Dr Michael Krasovitsky, Medical Oncologist, The Kinghorn Centre, Sydney
  • Justine Leach, Nurse Unit Manager, North Lakes Cancer Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
  • Dr Lachlan McDowell, Radiation Oncologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane
  • Dr Andrew Pastuszcek, ENT Surgeon, Toowoomba Base Hospital and St Andrew's Hospital, Toowoomba
  • Jean Nel, Senior Physiotherapist and GeriOnc Allied Health Professional, Caboolture Hospital

This breakfast session is sponsored by AstraZeneca and delivered by the COSA Geriatric Oncology Group

7:15AM - 8:45AM
Thursday, 3rd November
M3
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Time: 7:00am - 8:45am
Date: 3 November 2022

Agenda:

  • Decisions and dilemmas in dMMR advanced/recurrent EC management, Professor Linda Mileshkin Medical Oncologist and Director of Medical Oncology - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC
  • Nursing Considerations for the future treatment of Endometrial Cancers, Anne Mellon Clinical Nurse Consultant Gynaecological Oncology - Hunter New England Centre, NSW
  • Q&A Discussion

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7:00AM - 8:45AM
Thursday, 3rd November
M4
Chair: Chris Goddard
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Time: 7:00am - 8:45am
Date: 3 November 2022

Description: The multidisciplinary management of patients with advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) is entering a new era. The symposium aims to provide delegates with an understanding and an appreciation of the contemporary management of patients with advanced CSCC in regional and rural Australia.
The symposium will feature the perspectives and real-world clinical experiences from a medical oncology, radiation oncology and surgical point of view. Delegates will have an opportunity to interact with the panel during the symposia to further their understanding in advanced CSCC management.

Speakers:

  • Prof. Rahul Ladwa. Medical Oncologist. Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane, QLD
  • Prof. Gerald Fogarty. Radiation Oncologist. Icon Cancer Centre, Revesby, NSW
  • Prof. Sandra Krishnan. Breast Surgical Oncologist and General Surgeon. Sydney Adventist Hospital, Wahroonga, NSW
  • Prof. Rob Zielinski. Central West Cancer Care Centre, Orange, NSW

10:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 3&4
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11:00AM - 12:30PM
Thursday, 3rd November
M1

Chair: John Bashford

 

Followed by panel discussion

12:30PM - 1:30PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 3&4
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1:30PM - 1:50PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 1&2
Chair: Fran Boyle
1:50PM - 3:00PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 1&2
Chair: Dorothy Keefe

Panellists:

A/Prof Dion Forstner, Radiation Oncologist, President-Elect COSA

Professor Gail Garvey, Professor in Indigenous Health Research, The University of Queensland

Ms Deborah Henderson, Cancer Care Consumer

Professor Michael Kidd AM, Deputy Chief Medical Officer/Principal Medical Advisor, Australian Government

Ms Tania Rishniw, Deputy Secretary Primary and Community Care, Department of Health and Aged Care

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3:00PM - 3:30PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 1&2
3:00PM - 4:00PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 3&4
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3:00PM - 4:00PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Great Hall 3&4
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Thursday, 3rd November
Sky Room & Sky Terrace

Join us for a garden party on the Sky Terrace with lawn games, food carts and of course, dancing!