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VICS at the 2024 COSA ASM

Statewide - Adult

The 2024 Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) held its 2024 annual scientific meeting 13–15 November in the Gold Coast.

The VICS shared our recent work with hundreds of doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and other stakeholders at the event through 25 posters, 2 oral presentations, and a trade stand. Click the links below for copies of each poster, plus further details of some of the projects.

VICS posters at the COSA ASM 2024

Basic and translational research

Conference theme stream: Equity

  • Enhancing prostate cancer awareness through targeted community campaigns in a high-risk Victorian region (Poster PDF; More on this project)
  • VICS Optimal Care Summits protocol – Describing our methods for determining unwarranted variations in cancer care (Poster PDF; More on this program)
  • Examining the experience of culturally and linguistically diverse cancer patients in Victoria using the 2023 Cancer Patient Experience Survey data (Poster PDF)
  • An evaluation of the cancer experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cancer patients in Victoria using the 2023 Cancer Patient Experience Survey data (Poster PDF)
  • Understanding unwarranted variations in care for Victorian oesophagogastric cancer patients: A comparative analysis between 2012–2016 and 2017–2021 (Poster PDF; More on this project)
  • Identification of unwarranted variations, causes, and improvement priorities in Victorian oesophagogastric cancer care: A mixed-methods analysis (Poster PDF; More on this project)

Epidemiology

  • Effects of perioperative exercise therapy or mixed exercise on quality of life and adverse events in prostate cancer patients undergoing surgery (Poster PDF; More on this project)

Rare cancers

  • Population-based analysis of carcinoma of unknown primary – Patterns of care and outcomes in regional Victoria (Poster PDF)

Health services

  • Establishment of the Peninsula Health Oncology And Supportive Intervention Service (OASIS) – Bridging the gaps to improve care of the older patient living with cancer (Peninsula Health, with support from the SMICS funding program)
  • Exercise and Cancer Program: New models of exercise care for cancer patients in regional areas (Poster PDF; More on this project)
  • Improving the governance and quality of cancer multidisciplinary meetings (MDMs) at a Victorian cancer network (Poster PDF)
  • Gippsland Southern Healthcare Service survivorship clinic: Implementation of in-home cancer survivorship model of person-centred care for South Gippsland Shire and surrounds (Poster PDF)
  • Implementation of the culturally adapted online interactive malnutrition screening tool into three cancer services (WCMICS)
  • Addressing the needs of the older person in routine cancer care by supporting health services to implement geriatric oncology models of care (Poster PDF; More on this project)

Service provision

Supportive care

  • A collaborative approach to advance care planning in regional Victoria (Poster PDF)

Oral presentations

  • Implementing a First Nations cancer coordinator to improve cancer outcomes and enhance cultural safety for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community in Victoria (Abstract)
  • Examining the outcomes and impacts on the cancer services workforce of a professional development grants program (Abstract).