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11 Dec 2019

Survivorship Conference 2020

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  • Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre, a Richard Pratt Legacy

Early in 2020 we are looking forward to a compelling line-up of speakers, exploring a broad range of issues at the 3rd Victorian Cancer Survivorship Conference, A 2020 Vision – Building on learnings… partnering for success.

This will be the third time the major meeting has occurred in Melbourne, with a sold out inaugural event in October 2016, and an equally successful conference in 2018.

The meeting is suitable for clinicians, researchers, primary and allied health professionals, consumers and carers. 

Report shows improvements in survivorship

The just-released Cancer in Victoria Statistics and Trends 2018 report shows that cancer survival continues to improve across the state. From 1982 to 2017, five year survival increased from 46% to 69%. Alongside this encouraging figure however is another statistic that estimates the annual average incidence of cancer for the period 2029-2033 will climb to nearly 48,000, an increase of 43% from 2014-2018 – largely due to the growth and ageing of the Victorian population. This projection means that a greater emphasis on survivorship care is required. This includes broadening the scope of what is meant by good survivorship care into something that recognises that for many people, cancer is a complex, chronic disease that they may live with for years.

The meeting to be held 12-13 March at Crown Convention Centre Melbourne will feature international speakers Professor Deb Mayer PhD, RN, AOCN – Director of Cancer Survivorship at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Centre, University of North Carolina and Interim Director of the NCI’s Office of Cancer Survivorship, and Professor Adam Glaser – Professor of Paediatric Oncology and Late Effects, University of Leeds.

They will be joined by Professor Suzanne Chambers AO – Dean of the Faculty of Health at the University of Technology Sydney; previously the Director of the Menzies Health Institute of Queensland at Griffith University, and Professor Afaf Girgis AM – Director Psycho-oncology Research Group and a Chief Investigator in the Centre for Oncology Education and Research Translation (CONCERT), Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW.

Anton Enus, SBS news presenter

Special guest on the program is  Anton Enus, award-winning journalist and news anchor with SBS who was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016. Anton has shared that his world was rocked by the diagnosis and that it took him totally by surprise. He said, “I thought my career was over. I was not emotionally prepared for what it all meant. And it meant a lot.” Today he is cancer free and has returned to work presenting SBS World News.

Places are filling fast, register your place for 2020 - full program is available on the conference website. 

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