 |  | EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S MESSAGE Translation is complex and difficult. So let's do it |
Pound for pound, Australia’s track record in medical research innovation is impressive by any standard. It’s not news that translating that to commercial application is our long-standing stumbling block. Yet we know how vital it is to our economy and there’s plenty of evidence to show that we can do it. | | |
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 | Online education presents a lifeline to small nations Imagine living in a remote community with volcanic islands, green rainforests, and sandy beaches. Yet there is no cancer screening or population-based cancer registries. There are no cancer specialists. | | |
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 | Elevating consumer experience into consumer leadership The VCCC Cancer Consumer Advisory Committee (CCAC) is a board subcommittee that participates in the vision and strategy of the alliance. Good governance dictates that representatives must ultimately move on and new people will join. It’s a good thing that ensures diversity, fresh perspectives, and a mix of skills. But committee turnover comes with a cost. Relationships nurtured over many years and the hard-won nous of knowing how to get things done are not easily captured in a handover document. | | |
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 | Got Cancer? Get Vaccinated There is no evidence that people with cancer are at greater risk of side effects from the COVID vaccine than anyone else.
That is one of four key messages being shared in a campaign from the Victorian COVID-19 Cancer Taskforce to encourage people with cancer to get vaccinated. |
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 | OUTBACK Trial presented at ASCO Plenary 2021 Despite the inhospitable hour of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting Plenary - well before dawn in Australia - a presentation from Linda Mileshkin was warmly received as one of the most important clinical research advances for cervical cancer in the past year. |
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 | Recruiting four exciting new roles VCCC is seeking four individual senior Leads to hit the ground running in a brand new team working on a patient-partnered cancer research project across Australia and New Zealand.
Positions are part-time - a few days a week: - Genomics Lead
- Digital Communications Lead
- Consumer Partnerships Lead
- Health Data Lead
Closing Wednesday 16 June 2021. |
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15 JUNE | VCCC Head and Neck Cancer Ethics Seminar Series Tough cases in head and neck cancer - we can treat, but should we?
Register for the first seminar in this three-part series Book now › |
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30 JUNE | Promoting yourself and your research VCCC online education workshop
Facilitated by internationally recognised public speaker, educator and researcher, Hugh Kearns Book now › |
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26 JULY | VCCC Monday Lunch Livestream Global Oncology: Establishing an Oncology Unit in the Solomon Islands, presented by Professor Desmond Yip Canberra Hospital and ANU and Dr Andrew Soma Book now › |
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 | Subject Development Coordinators required Melbourne MicroCerts are new cancer-specific, multidisciplinary, flexible, wholly online, skill-based courses for cancer professionals.
We have four exciting subject development coordinator positions available to help develop course content: - Embarking on Clinical Trials: An Investigators Toolkit
- How to: A Guide to Drug Commercialisation
- Let's talk about Health Economics
- New Frontiers in Cancer Care: Personalised Precision Medicine
Closing Monday night 14 June 2021. |
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 | World Congress of Psycho-oncology award Dr Nienke Zomerdijk, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Psycho-Oncology, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, and Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre alliance has won the International Psycho-Oncology Society’s presentation award at this year’s conference.
“I don’t want my brother to die”: Experiences and unmet needs of family members requested to donate haematopoietic stem cells to an ill relative |
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 | Should biological sex be considered in cancer care? Dr Sue Haupt from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre featured on VCCC's Monday Lunch Live and ABC's Radio National this week talking about how fundamental genetic and biological differences between the sexes are vital to cancer development, patient treatment responses and outcomes. “Without proper understanding of the causes of cancer, we lack a basis for rational treatment design,” she says. |
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5th Victorian Cancer Survivorship Research Forum The Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre (ACSC) together with Victorian Cancer Agency (VCA) invites you to join the virtual 5th Victorian Cancer Survivorship Research Forum today.
This free forum is an opportunity for Victorian-based healthcare professionals, researchers and organisations to hear about the excellent work that is underway by interstate experts and fellow Victorians working in cancer survivorship.
Featuring:
Distinguished Professor Patsy Yates AM – VCA grant reviewer
A/Prof Helena Frawley – VCA Mid-Career Research Fellowship (Non-Biomedical Stream)
Dr. Amy Bennett – VCA Early Career Research Fellowship (Non-Biomedical Stream)
Open to anyone interested or involved in cancer survivorship research - researcher, clinician, student, consumer, policymaker or other health professional.
Cost: Free
Date: Thursday 10 June 2021
Time: 2.00pm – 3.30pm |
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Best of ASCO Australia 2021 OncologyEducation’s Best of ASCO® Conference is a program licensed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology and will be held virtually on June 19, 2021. Chaired by Professor Tim Price and Dr Richard de Boer, the focus of this event will be to provide medical oncologists and other healthcare practitioners with a summary of the most significant treatment advances presented at the ASCO® 2021 Annual (digital) Meeting, with presentations focused on several key disease sites. The Best of ASCO® Australia faculty will draw from some of Australia’s most influential oncologists. - To summarise the most significant treatment advances presented at ASCO® 2021
- To review the current standard of care for key malignancies
- To discuss the current controversies in the management of specific cancers
Date: Saturday 19 June 2021
Time: 9.00am - 2.00pm
Book: Registration is complimentary for healthcare professionals |
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Deputy Director of Oncology - Monash Health Monash Health is Victoria's largest public health service and provides healthcare to one quarter of Melbourne's population, across the entire life-span from newborn and children, to adults, the elderly, their families and carers. This key role will contribute to a broad multidisciplinary team as you deliver holistic patient and family centred care.
Note: Further roles are currently being recruited: Oncology Registrar and Consultant Oncologist. |
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Associate Medical Oncologist - Albury Wodonga Border Medical Oncology and Haematology (BMO) is a thriving and well-organised medical oncology & haematology practice based in Albury-Wodonga. They are presently seeking a Medical Oncologist to join the practice on a full-time basis.
BMO has an established, award-winning clinical research department allowing patients access to a broad range of clinical trials. The research unit was the recipient of $18.5 million over five years from the Medical Research Future Fund Grant in collaboration with the Regional Trials Network Victoria to improve outcomes in cancer patients across regional Victoria and is supported by a research fellow.
Multidisciplinary clinics are established for common malignancies as well as teleconferencing and mentoring links with metropolitan centres for the co-management of less common tumours. Albury Wodonga Health and the AWRCC has a Memorandum Of Understanding with the Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre alliance enabling clinical, research and educational partnerships. |
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Associate Clinical Haematologist - Albury Wodonga Border Medical Oncology and Haematology is seeking a second Haematologist to join the practice on a full-time basis.
The practice sees both public and private patients across a broad range of tumour types. They service a regional population of approximately 250,000 people and provide outreach clinics to Wangaratta and Deniliquin. They are based in the Albury Wodonga Regional Cancer and Wellness Centre (AWRCC), which includes a state-of-the-art day ward, inpatient wards, and radiotherapy department. The centre is located on the Albury campus of Albury Wodonga Health. |
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Seeking Senior Research Fellow - Health Economics The Cancer Health Services Research (CHSR) group is a research group embedded in the University of Melbourne Centre for Cancer Research and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. CHSR is global, collaborative and leads large programs of research with an emphasis on real-world evidence development, economic modelling and data analysis in cancer treatment. The Senior Research Fellow will provide health economics expertise to a large multi-national collaboration.
Apply: Applications close 4 July 2021 |
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