Reflection, what does it mean?
Speaker: Gary Power
Coping with head and neck cancer
Speaker: Lucy Bailey
Life long dental care
Speaker: Deborah Buick
What can I eat?
Speaker: Amy Morze
7News – Skin patch could fight cancer
Cancer Council Queensland Funded Research
BTAA Patient Advocate Network Summit Consumer Forum – Q&A Panel
Speaker: Professor Martin van der Bentt
Professor Martin van der Bent
Speaker: Professor Martin van der Bentt
BTAA Patient Advocate Network Summit Consumer Forum
Speaker: Michelle Stewart
CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum – Novel Treatments for Pancreatic Cancer
Speaker: Matthew Burge
CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum – Pancreatic Cancer and Familial Genetics
Speaker: Michael Gattas
CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum – Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cancer and the Queensland Pancreatic Cancer Study
Speaker: Rachel Neale
CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum – Being a Pancreatic Cancer Survivor
Speaker: Suzanne Kavanagh
CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum – Using Biomarkers for Personalised Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer: The Sin1 Protein
Speaker: Wayne Schroder
New paths in the radiotherapy journey
Speaker: Art Kaminski
Radiotherapy in Cancer Care: New Techniques & Future Directions
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speaker: Rick Walker
Interrupted development and why it’s hard for adolescents and young adults to adjust to cancer
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speaker: Po Inglis
Setting the scene – common malignancies in adolescents and young adults
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speaker: Lyndal Gray
“Mates, Playstation and my Bass” The importance of leisure and setting goals for adolescents and young adults with cancer
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speaker: Leigh Donovan
The death of a young adult child – how practice and research informs our understanding of bereavement
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speaker: Jasmine Gailer
Self Image
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speaker: Fiona Henderson
Exploring sexuality and fertility
Adolescents & young adults with cancer navigating the obstacles
Speakers: Claire Masula and Janine Deevy
Treatment Compliance
Radiotherapy
Julie Ward RN
Clinical Nurse, Genesis Cancer Care
More than one in three people will develop cancer in their lifetime and over half of these people will require radiotherapy at least once—either as part of their overall management or as their sole treatment.
Radiotherapy (radiation therapy) is used to treat cancers of nearly all types and presentations, extending lives and/or reducing suffering for patients and their families. This lecture will describe radiotherapy, its use and treatment side effects. The presenter will also describe the typical ‘radiotherapy’ journey for a person with cancer.
Cancer Biology
Leisa Brown RN
Nurse Educator, Central Integrated Regional Cancer Service
The cell is the fundamental unit of life. It is the smallest structure of the body capable of performing all of the processes that define life. When the healthy and organised function of a cell fails, a cell may become cancerous. This presentation will provide an overview of the cell, events that lead to cell mutation and cancer formation, how cancer spreads and causes damage and the process around deciding cancer treatment.
Reducing Cancer Risk
Nic Border
Team Leader Local Government and Community Engagement Public Health Cancer Council Queensland
Cancer is the largest cause of disease burden in Australia. In 2010, cancer was responsible for around 30% of all Australian deaths. One in 10 hospitalisations in 2010/11 was cancer related. Cancer survival in Australia has, however, improved by around 40% over the past three decades. The risk of cancer increases significantly with age: in 2007, the average age of a new cancer diagnosis was 67 years for males and 64 years for females. So as Australia’s population ages and treatment outcomes improve, more needs to be done to prevent, detect and treat cancer, as well as to support the increasing numbers of people living with cancer long term. This presentation will ‘set the scene’ for the forum, and provide an overview of the impact of cancer in Australia, outline the reason that all health professionals need to be involved in cancer control and Cancer Council Queensland’s new program that aims to assist in reducing cancer risk in Queensland.
Psychosocial Cancer Care
Sylvia Burns RN
Cancer Support Senior Consultant, Cancer Council Queensland
People with cancer can suffer significant emotional morbidity. In addition to the distress, fear and grief of diagnosis, up to 30% of people with cancer experience clinically significant anxiety disorders and rates for depression range from 20%-35%. This can have a major impact on the person’s functioning, and that of their family, as well as posing a major occupational and economic burden. In addition, this can affect capacity to cope with disease burden, and may reduce adherence to recommended treatment. This presentation will review the psycho-social response to cancer and strategies that health professionals can use to assist their patients.
Systemic Therapies
Christine Long RN
Manager Health Professional Education and Cancer Support Services, Cancer Council Queensland
Systemic cancer therapy is the branch of cancer treatment that encompasses cytotoxic chemotherapy and biological or targeted therapies. Cytotoxic chemotherapy enters the bloodstream and travels through the body to prevent cancer cells from dividing. Targeted therapies block the growth and spread of cancer by directly disrupting cancer cells. The indications, function, treatment side effects and management of side effects of cytotoxic chemotherapy and targeted therapies will be outlined during this presentation.
Global Perspectives in Palliative Care
Professor Mark Lazenby
Professor Lazenby is Assistant Professor of Nursing at Yale School of Nursing USA and is a specialist in palliative and end of life care.
The Emotional Impact of Advanced Cancer
Associate Professor Jane Turner
University of Queensland & Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital
The news that cancer has recurred and is advanced, is devastating and can bring with it disbelief and uncertainty, fear and anxiety, distress and depression. Depression and anxiety are common among patients receiving palliative care and contribute to a greatly diminished quality of life and impact on physical symptoms, social concerns and existential issues. Treatments for depression and anxiety can improve quality of life and ability to cope with disease burden, and this presentation describes treatments which can be delivered in a community setting.
Sexuality: Impact of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
Ms Janine Porter-Steele
Manager Wesley Hospital Kim Walters Choices Program
The diagnosis of cancer of any kind can have a devastating effect on psychological and emotional well-being as well as physical functioning including sexual function. Estimates of sexual dysfunction after cancer treatment vary widely, with most research to date relating to breast and gynaecologic cancers and prostate cancer. Sexuality is fundamental to the ways we experience physical and emotional closeness and develop intimate relationships. This Webinar will provide an understanding about the ways that cancer and its treatment affects the sexuality of people with cancer. The presentation will address practical ways that health professionals can assist people with cancer to adapt to physical and emotional changes that impact on sexuality and intimacy. The presenter will draw from her experience in supporting women with breast and gynaecological cancers.
Cancer in Elderly
Mr Wolfgang Marx
Malnutrician in older people with cancer
Cancer in Elderly
Ms Tina Skinner
Benefits of exercise in the older cancer patient
Moving Towards a Multidisciplinary Model
Ms Sandie McCarthy
Moving Towards a Multidisciplinary Model
Cancer and ageing psycho-social burdens
Ms Samantha Clutton
Cancer and ageing psycho-social burdens