Cancer Council Queensland provides information and education programs to health professionals within Queensland. To support access to this information online videos are provided.
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On this page you will find information on:
- Communicating about breast and gynaecological cancers with women from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds 2018
- What's current in our approach to managing ovarian cancer 2018
- Ovarian Cancer Forum 2016
- CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum 2015
- New Paths in the Radiotherapy Journey 2015
- Adolescents & Young Adults with Cancer Navigating the Obstacles - AYA Forum 2015
- Sexuality: Impact of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment 2015
- Cancer in Elderly Forum 2015
- The Emotional Impact of Advanced Cancer 2014
Communicating about breast and gynaecological cancers with women from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds 2018
Speakers: Dr Keely Gordon-King, Psychologist, Cancer Counselling Service, Cancer Council Queensland
Anna Voloschenko, Advisor, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Support, Cancer Council Queensland
What’s current in our approach to managing ovarian cancer 2018
Cancer Council Queensland Professional Education Session
Speakers: Professor Andreas Obermair, Gynaecological Oncologist – What’s current in our approach to managing ovarian cancer?
Anna Gordon, Coordinator, Cancer Support – Cancer Council Queensland support services for women and their families
Ovarian Cancer Forum 2016
Speaker: Associate Professor Penny Webb, Research Fellow – The Ovarian Cancer Prognosis and Lifestyle Study
Speaker: Dr Paul Vasey, Medical Oncology Specialist Gynaecological Malignancies – Front line chemotherapy for Ovarian Cancer
Speaker: Natasha Clarke, Clinical Learning Coordinator – Intraperitoneal Therapy: Nursing Management
Speaker: Professor Andreas Obermair, Gynaecological Oncologist – What is Ovarian Cancer: signs and symptoms, diagnosis and surgical advances
Speaker: Robin Woodrow, Ovarian Cancer Survivor – The “Lived Experience” of ovarian cancer
CCQ Pancreatic Cancer Forum 2015
Speaker: Matthew Burge, Medical Oncologist – Novel Treatments for Pancreatic Cancer
Speaker: Michael Gattas, Clinical Geneticist – Pancreatic Cancer and Familial Genetics
Speaker: Rachel Neale, Epidemiologist – Epidemiology and Risk Factors for Pancreatic Cancer and the Queensland Pancreatic Cancer Study
Speaker: Suzanne Kavanagh, Cancer Support Volunteer and Pancreatic Cancer Survivor – On Being a Pancreatic Cancer Survivor
Speaker: Wayne Schroder, Senior Research Officer – Using Biomarkers for Personalised Therapy of Pancreatic Cancer: The Sin1 Protein
New Paths in the Radiotherapy Journey 2015
Speaker: Art Kaminski, Radiation Oncologist – Radiotherapy in Cancer Care: New Techniques & Future Directions
Adolescents & Young Adults with Cancer Navigating the Obstacles – AYA Forum 2015
Speaker: Rick Walker, Senior Medical Officer – Interrupted development and why it’s hard for adolescents and young adults to adjust to cancer
Speaker: Po Inglis, Lead Clinician – Setting the scene – common malignancies in adolescents and young adults
Speaker: Lyndal Gray, Senior Leisure Therapist – “Mates, Playstation and my Bass” The importance of leisure and setting goals for adolescents and young adults with cancer
Speaker: Leigh Donovan, Senior Social Worker – The death of a young adult child – how practice and research informs our understanding of bereavement
Speaker: Jasmine Gailer, Cancer Survivor, Founder of Scar Stories – Self Image
Speaker: Fiona Henderson, Clinical Nurse Consultant/Cancer Care Coordinator – Exploring sexuality and fertility
Speakers: Claire Masula, Social Worker and Janine Deevy, Cancer Care Cooridinator – Treatment Compliance
Sexuality: Impact of Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment 2015
Speaker: Ms Janine Porter-Steele, Manager Wesley Hospital Kim Walters Choices Program – The Impact of Cancer on Sexuality
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 Forum 2015
Speaker: Mr Wolfgang Marx, PhD Candidate – Malnutrition in older people with cancer
Speaker: Ms Tina Skinner, Exercise Physiologist – Benefits of exercise in the older cancer patient
Speaker: Ms Sandie McCarthy, Chair of Cancer Nursing – Moving Towards a Multidisciplinary Model of Care for Older Cancer Patients
Speaker: Ms Samantha Clutton, Clinical Psychologist – Cancer and ageing, psycho-social burdens
The Emotional Impact of Advanced Cancer 2014
Speaker: 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.