Snapshots of Cancer Council Queensland research publications

Investing in cancer research is a key strategic priority of Cancer Council Queensland. Through Cancer Council Queensland, our donors and supporters contribute to the global research effort to create a cancer free future.

The Viertel Cancer Research Centre is CCQ’s in-house cancer research unit. The centre leads and collaborates in national and international research to improve our understanding of cancer including cancer in children, to reduce inequity in cancer outcomes in our population, and to better support cancer patients and their families.

Below you will find snapshots of all recent peer-reviewed and published research papers that the Viertel Cancer Research Centre has led or in which it has collaborated. Please click on a tile to read more about our research in the program areas of Cancer Epidemiology (blue), Childhood Cancer (purple) and Health Systems and Behavioural Research (red).

2024

Changes in rural cancer caregivers’ health behaviours

Group nutrition education and cooking programs for people affected by cancer

Advance notifications for cancer screening

NSPIs for childhood cancer in Australia

Mechanisms for delivering cancer survivorship care in Australia

Screening for cervical, bowel and breast cancer

2023

GP visits for skin cancer concerns in Australia

How to change the bowel cancer screening kit

Validation of Barriers to Bowel Cancer Screening Scale

SMARTER Screen: Using SMS to increase bowel cancer screening participation

Rural cancer information needs

Impact of cancer and its treatment on employment for people in rural areas

Incidence patterns of common skin cancers in Tasmania

Genetic mutations and death from thin melanomas

Trends in PSA testing by geographical region

Spatial patterns in PSA testing across Australia

The geography of prostate cancer treatment in Australia

What predicts wait-time for first treatment following a breast cancer diagnosis?

Small-area patterns, bowel cancer screening

Review of spatial survival methods

Temporal changes in childhood cancer

Melanoma trends in three Australian states

Childhood cancer prevalence in Australia

Severity and risk factors of interval breast cancer

2022

Impact of remoteness on survival among First Nations cancer patients

Psychological distress and bowel cancer screening

Spatial patterns in rare cancer types

Long-term childhood cancer survival

Review of poorer survival among First Nations cancer patients

Second primary cancer in AYA cancer survivors

Support-seeking by cancer caregivers living in rural Australia

Avoidable deaths among First Nations cancer patients

Need for control and self reliance in bowel cancer screening

Prognostic model for women diagnosed with breast cancer

Childhood cancer survival in Australia, 1983 to 2016

Risk of developing second primary cancers following colorectal cancer

The quality of life of regional and remote cancer caregivers in Australia

Geographic distribution of malignant mesothelioma in Australia

Consumer perspectives on improving bowel cancer screening kits

Cancer incidence in migrants in Australia

Survivorship care information for rural cancer survivors

Differences in life expectancy for First Nations people with cancer

Motivation and planning to promote bowel cancer screening

Early diagnosis and cancer deaths

2021

Melanoma detected during routine skin checks and mortality

Cancer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

Text message intervention to improve sun protection behaviours

Mail-out bowel cancer screening: Stumbling blocks

CNS tumours in Australian children

Outcomes following gastric cancer surgery by hospital characteristics

Information needs and preferences among rural cancer survivors

Spatial disparities in incidence and survival of MPNs

Supportive care needs of regional cancer caregivers

Prevalence of coal mine dust disease

Factors influencing outcomes for childhood leukemia

Texting interventions for melanoma prevention and early detection

Poorer survival for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients

Barriers to bowel cancer screening

Pattern of sun damage according to body site in Queenslanders

Role of law in end-of-life decision-making

Primary care and cervical testing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Survival from childhood cancer in Uganda

Thyroid cancer following hysterectomy

Help-seeking in regional and remote cancer survivors

Crude probability of death for NSW cancer patients by spread of disease

Childhood cancer in sub-Saharan Africa

Colorectal cancer incidence and folic acid fortification in Australia

Cancer incidence projections using Bayesian models

Regional and remote patient experiences

Predictors of death from thin melanoma

Non-cancer mortality among survivors of childhood cancer

Cervical abnormalities among Indigenous women in Queensland

2020

Lifetime costs of surviving cancer

Assessing the accuracy of melanoma risk prediction models

Risk factors for the development of melanoma vary according to body site

Non-stage prognostic indicators for childhood cancer

Accuracy of self-reported mole densities

Sustainable care for children with cancer around the world

Psychosocial interventions and cancer-related fatigue

Melanoma deaths from thickness

Childhood cancer incidence trends and projections in Australia

Factors associated with death from thin melanoma

Geographical patterns in melanoma incidence by thickness

Cervical cancer screening among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders

Online physical activity information for cancer survivors

Avoidable cancer deaths due to better cancer survival

Global trends in childhood liver cancers

Childhood hepatic cancer incidence and survival

Global trends in adult liver cancers

Geographical disparities in screening and cancer-related health behaviour

Further investigation of disease maps

Joint modelling of multiple cancer types using summary statistics

A consensus report about early detection of melanoma

Childhood renal tumours in Australia

Factors associated with high severity breast cancer

Online physical activity information for cancer survivors

Life expectancy changes after cancer by geographic location

Life expectancy changes after cancer over time

Changes in population-level cure of cancer over time

Lung cancer in Australian children

Skin examination behaviours among Australians over time

Increasing participation in mail-out bowel cancer screening

Hospital characteristics and outcomes after oesophagectomy

Hospital characteristics and post-operative mortality following gastrectomy

Hospital characteristics and outcomes following pancreaticoduodenectomy

Survival in patients with multiple primary melanomas

Second primary cancers following childhood cancer

Obesity is associated with BRAF(V600E)-mutated thyroid cancer

Neuroblastoma in Australian children

Breast cancer statistics for young females in Queensland