Viewed as a series, or independently, the one-hour webinars will illustrate the multidisciplinary nature of disease management and the need for the incorporation of all treatment modalities to achieve optimal outcomes.
The series will highlight cutting-edge science from across the VCCC Alliance that could improve outcomes for this patient group.
The webinar will be hosted by Professor David Wiesenfeld, VCCC Alliance Research and Education Lead for Head and Neck Cancer.
David will be joined by Ankur Singh, Lecturer in Epidemiology and the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Research Fellow in Oral Epidemiology at the University of Melbourne to explore a host of factors that impact initial presentation and referral.
Clinical ethicist Clare Delaney, Sevastijan Kranz, Ernest Lekgabe and Anthony Cardin will discuss diagnosis, staging and treatment planning.
Program overview
Key issues
Diagnosis, staging and treatment planning
The VCCC Alliance Research and Education Lead, Head and Neck Cancer program aims to map opportunities across the alliance to develop expert networks, deliver strategic educational programming, improve sharing of data for research, and implement multi-partner clinical trials to speed up the translation of new research into routine clinical practice.
PART 2:
Patient perspectives on tongue cancer hosted by Dr Norman Swan, multi-award-winning broadcaster, Tuesday 14 June
PART 3:
Surgery and Reconstruction, Tuesday 21 June
PART 4:
Therapy - Systemic and Radiation and Survivorship, Wednesday 6 July
PART 5:
When things don't go well - managing failure and the future research outlook, Tuesday 19 July
