Tuesday - Women's Cancer: exceptional, multi-disciplinary care - The Women’s Conference Centre
Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Inaugural Research Conference 2017
Days
Monday, 18th September
Tuesday, 19th September
Tracks
Monday - An International Perspective - VCCC Building
Tuesday - Personalised Medicine: from cancer genomics to clinical benefits - VCCC building
Tuesday - Women's Cancer: exceptional, multi-disciplinary care - The Women’s Conference Centre
Tuesday – Innovative Care – Western Centre for Health Research & Education
Tuesday - Immunology and the Micro-world – Austin Hospital
Tuesday - Palliative Care & Psycho-oncology – Park Hyatt Hotel hosted by St Vincent’s Hospital
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Speakers
Tuesday Royal Women's Hospital, Parkville
8:45AM - 4:30PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Opening Remarks
8:45AM - 9:00AM
Tuesday, 19th September
Conference Room A
Opening remarks: Sue Matthews and Nicole Livingstone (Via Video)
Session 1: Modern Management of Women's Cancers
9:00AM - 10:20AM
Tuesday, 19th September
Conference Room A
Chair: David Wrede
Breast Surgery - so what's new?
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Cathie Poliness
The role of sentinel lymph assessment in gynaecological cancer
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Orla McNally
Practice changing advances in systemic therapy for gynaecological cancer
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Linda Mileshkin
Tumour size, lympho-vascular invasion and metastasis: A clinical perspective
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Kailash Naryan
Morning Tea
10:20AM - 10:50AM
Tuesday, 19th September
Foyer
Session 2: The Prevention of Cancer in Women
10:50AM - 12:25PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Conference Room A
Chair: Orla McNally
Estrogen receptor positive luminal progenitors may underlie high risk of ER+ breast cancers in nulliparous women
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Kara Britt
Cervical cancer prevention, everything is changing
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Marion Saville
The prevention of Uterine and Ovarian cancer
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David Wrede
RANK ligand as a target for breast cancer prevention in
BRCA1
mutation carriers
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Geoffrey Lindeman
Lunch
12:25PM - 1:25PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Foyer
Session 3: Impact of Cancer on Women and the Families
1:25PM - 2:45PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Conference Room A
Chair: Martha Hickey
Life after cancer: maximising future fertility
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Kate Stern
Mental health of women with cancer – trauma, identity and maternity
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Louise Newman
Sex and relationships after cancer
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Wendy Vanselow
Social Distress in Women with Cancer : implications for co-creative supportive care
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Lynette Joubert
Afternoon Tea
2:45PM - 3:15PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Foyer
Session 4: Women's Quality of Life After Cancer Diagnosis
3:15PM - 4:40PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Conference Room A
Chair: David Wrede
Internet-based sex therapy for breast cancer survivors: results of a randomized controlled trial
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Neil Aaronson
Managing menopausal symptoms after cancer: What works and what doesn’t?
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Martha Hickey
Early endometrial cancer survivorship clinic
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Danielle Carpenter
Survivorship care plans (SCPs) – what do survivors of gynaecological cancer want?
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Nicole Kinnane
Closing Remarks
4:40PM - 4:45PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Foyer
Closing Remarks: David Wrede
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David Wrede
Buses depart for Park Hyatt - Conference Finale
4:50PM - 5:00PM
Tuesday, 19th September
Foyer