This symposium will highlight current work and impart practical strategies to support the implementation of evidence-based nutrition and exercise recommendations, including:
Development of a toolkit to support implementation of the COSA Cancer-related Malnutrition and Sarcopenia Position Statement recommendations
Presentations from the inaugural COSA Nutrition-Exercise Fellows on the establishment of a detailed map of the nutrition and exercise services available in cancer centres in Australia
Evidence to practice: highlight on nutrition
Evidence to practice: highlight on exercise
Strategies to help support clinicians and health services implement evidence-based nutrition and exercise recommendations
This session will include interactive Q&A with all speakers.
Speakers:
Welcome by COSA President
Welcome to Country
Official opening by Her excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC Governor of Victoria
Chair: Fran Boyle
10:20 AM Panel discussion
12:00 PM Panel discussion
12:00 PM Panel discussion
COSA NETs Group Meeting Meeting Room 104
COSA Survivorship Group Meeting Meeting Room 105
2:35 PM Panel discussion
COSA Geriatric Oncology Group Meeting Plenary 1
COSA Psycho-Oncology Group Meeting Meeting Room 105
COSA Exercise and Cancer Group Meeting Meeting Room 106
Chair: Sandi Hayes
5:15 PM Panel discussion
Chair: Marion Saville
5:00 PM Panel discussion
This dinner is especially for our trainees in any specialty of breast cancer management. We will hear the important surgical, plastics, radiation and medical oncology perspectives of how to treat high risk early breast cancer. The challenges for the patient and the clinician in working out what treatment to give, in what order and what imaging and pathological information is required to make these informed decisions.
We look forward to a fun night to meet your colleagues in related disciplines of breast cancer care!
Chair:
Dr Belinda Yeo, Medical Oncologist and Clinician Scientist, Austin Health
Guest speakers:
A/Prof Steven David (Radiation Oncologist), Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Dr Satomi Koide (Plastics Surgeon), St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne
Prof Bruce Mann (Breast Surgeon), Director of the Breast Tumour Stream, Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre
A/Prof Louise Nott (Medical Oncologist), Medical Oncologist, Royal Hobart Hospital
This meeting is financially sponsored by Novartis. The content and agenda have been developed independently by COSA and medical experts.
Fight with Care is the new program from La Roche Posay working to highlight the importance of a holistic approach when treating oncology treatment side effects. We welcome you to join us for an evening with the scientific experts behind the campaign, discussion around the treatment guidelines and management of skin toxicities in oncology patients and discover the work we do, in partnership with the McGrath foundation, to drive better access for patients who experience skin toxicities as a result of their cancer therapy.
Skin toxicities
Fight with Care program launch incl. Onco-dermatology clinic at Princess Alexandra Hospital
Speakers:
Samantha Russel - Medical Director of L'Oreal Dermatological beauty
More to be confirmed
Pharmacist Prescribing in Cancer - Are we getting close?
Pharmacists are already actively providing excellent care to cancer patients during pre-admission, treatment and discharge or transition planning. The role of a clinical pharmacist has evolved, pharmacists are providing valuable advice to the medical team after reviewing medication related issues of the patients. While there have been proposals and trial initiatives in the community setting, pharmacist prescribing in Australia is currently very limited. In contrast, pharmacists have been prescribing in the UK since 2003.
How did they get there? What can we learn from our colleagues from UK? What are some of the challenges the pharmacist prescribers faced?
In this symposium we will have discussion of the UK model, how it works and the advanced pharmacist practice happening in Australia, including Partnered Pharmacist Medication Charting.
The Partnered Pharmacist Medication Charting (PPMC) Model has been tested and implemented in Victoria in both general medicine and more recently in the oncology setting. Under the PPMC model, pharmacists have been placed in a unique position to review, document and co-chart medications with the prescriber.
Is PPMC a step towards pharmacist prescribing and advanced practice? Would it be a basis of pharmacist prescribing? How can we work towards an advanced practice pharmacist model?
Come to the dinner symposium and find out!
Speakers:
Faye Coe, Advanced Clinical Oncology Pharmacist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals, NHS Trust, UK
Gail Rowan, Advanced Clinical Training & Medicines Information Senior Pharmacist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre