Tuesday, 14th May Inaugural Victorian Integrated Cancer Services Conference 2013

Welcome to Day 2: Ian Roos

• The role and experience of informal caregivers of people with advanced cancer: How can we best support this group? - Anna Ugalde
• Unmet needs in immigrant patients with cancer: A challenge for our services - Phyllis Butow

• Outpatient clinic supportive care screening: innovative practice change - Sara Jorgensen
• Implementing routine supportive care screening across the north east region of Melbourne: NEMICS experience - Melissa Shand
• Supportive Care Screening of Cancer Patients in Regional Victoria - Mohd Azlan Mohd Hashim
• A Victorian approach to improving AYA psychosocial care: the development and implementation of an AYA screening, assessment and care planning tool - Ilana Berger

• Consumer engagement – Working together for better outcomes - Susan Hanson
• It's a matter of trust: Preferences for mode of delivery of psychosocial support among Australian men following radical prostatectomy - Denise Corboy
• The usefulness of the Distress Thermometer in the distress management of cancer patients - a quantitative and qualitative study. - Melinda Williams
• Identifying supportive care needs of patients new to medical oncology - a report on the development of a novel supportive care screening programme - Kathryn Vickers

• Incorporating Everyone’s Perspective - the Value of the Consumer Lens in a Survivorship Project - Lee Kennedy
• Relationship between Sense of Coherence and level of psychological distress and quality of life in Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT) patients over time - Brindha Pillay
• Survivorship connections: the development of a collaborative model of survivorship care for young people diagnosed with cancer - Samantha Van Staalduinen
• Breast Cancer Survivorship Program: Key themes from consultations with women, GPs and hospital staff – why these need to be uncovered and addressed for the development of a high quality, safe, sustainable model of survivorship care - Sita Vij

includes poster viewing, refer to the Monday program for the poster listing and abstracts

• Lets Yarn with the Aboriginal community of Albury/Wodonga about cancer prevention, early diagnosis and better outcomes. - Robyn Sharman
• Providing individualised, patient centred multidisciplinary supportive care - Michelle McKimmie
• A physical activity intervention to enhance survivorship care for stem cell transplant recipients - Helen McLauchlan
• Youth-friendly cancer care: AYA best practice supportive care - SArah E Drew

• Is early integration of palliative care for patients with incurable lung cancer acceptable to Australian healthcare professionals? - Katie Doan
• Patterns of care and place of death of patients with metastatic non small cell lung cancer - Jennifer Philip
• Palliative Care Research Network Victoria (PCRNV): A state-wide initiative of collaboration for palliative care research - Peter Hudson
• Clinical tools to assist with specialist palliative care provision - Jennifer Philip

• Staff Wellbeing in Paediatric Oncology: How can we measure it and what should we do about it? - Erin Cowley
• Workforce development of health care professionals in supportive care screening. - Robyn McIntyre
• Wimmera Oncology Nurse Practitioner collaborative model- 2 years on… - Carmel O'Kane
• Workshops to Improve Communication in Cancer Care - Vicki Mcleod

• Reflections of fifteen and a half years as Victoria's Health Services Commissioner and of a cancer survivor - Bethia Wilson AM
• End of Life Cancer Journeys: A Chinese Story - Chan Cheah

Best Poster Award