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better cancer care

A study funded by GRICS was published in Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, April 2025

VICS Survivorship Program progress 2025

Watch the recording of our free webinar, cohosted with Advance Care Planning Australia

The 2025 National Cancer Survivorship Conference featured several poster and presentations from the VICS

A VICS poster on unwarranted variations in Victorian endometrial cancer care won the Clinical Poster Abstract Award at the 2025 meeting of ANZGOG.

The VICS shared our recent work with hundreds of doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other stakeholders at the COSA ASM 2024.

The VICS Optimal Care Summits team spoke to consumers who contributed to recent consultations and summits, about the experience.

The VICS Cancer Survivorship Program has announced 14 new grants to help embed survivorship care into routine practice.

Our Cancer Follow-up Care Services Catalogue helps health services to take the lead in shaping and improving survivorship care models that cater to the unique needs of cancer survivors.

The VICS are collaborating closely with clinicians to design and implement practical tools and processes that strengthen multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs) across Victoria.

The program's first consultation on a priority population identified 16 unwarranted variations in care and outcomes for people born in non-English speaking countries and treated for cancer in Victoria.

This project addresses the barriers that people with disabilities often face throughout their cancer care journey and aims to develop an evidence-informed toolkit to support more inclusive, accessible, and coordinated cancer care.

PICS developed 2 survivorship resources and implemented these across Monash Children’s Hospital and The Royal Children’s Hospital.

Aims to improve health equity across the cancer continuum by supporting former refugees to better understand cancer, prevention, early intervention, and optimal care pathways

Care of the Older Person with Cancer Toolkit (4th edition) now available. This toolkit helps to identify and address existing barriers, examples of existing geriatric oncology services, and key resources to support staff education, patients and carers.

Our training course on delivering culturally sensitive cancer care is now available on the Centre for Cancer Education website.

A self-help online platform to provide tailored mental health support for people with cancer and their support people.

A folder of tips and templates to help people affected by cancer.

Short, animated videos that support the patient and their carers to understand the treatment journey.

Produced in partnership with the GICS Consumer Advisory Group this guide has been developed to provide a list of helpful online resources for carers of people with cancer.

Cancer and cancer treatment can affect fertility. There are several safe and effective fertility preservation (oncofertility) options available.

Fundamentals of care for all tumour streams and specific pathways for acute leukaemia, central nervous system tumours, and solid tumours.

Info. given to families by The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, upon diagnosis of childhood cancer

Info. given to families by Monash Children's Hospital, Melbourne, upon diagnosis of childhood cancer

Booklet to help parents and families when their child is diagnosed with cancer

Medication information leaflet for using Vincristine during the treatment of childhood cancer.

E-learning pack for allied health, administration and support staff.

Leaflet for families on Hickman line surgery (also called Tunnelled Cuffed Centrally Inserted Central Catheter or TC-CICC).

Best practice guidance for procedural support in paediatric radiation therapy in Victoria

Booklet for children/adolescents and their carers on benefits of physical activity during cancer treatment

Continuing professional development framework for nurses working in paediatric cancer care