Statewide Cancer Survivorship Program grant recipients
The VICS Cancer Survivorship Program has announced 14 new grants to help embed survivorship care into routine practice.
The statewide program aims to improve care and support for people living with and beyond cancer, in line with the Victorian Cancer Plan, by strengthening and spreading effective survivorship models.
A key feature of the program for 2024–2028 is its grants initiative. We have funded 14 new projects across Victoria, to help health services ensure they can respond to the long‑term health and wellbeing needs of cancer survivors. These projects span diverse approaches — from integrated clinical models to community‑based supports — and will inform ongoing development of sustainable survivorship care statewide.
| Project title | Health service | Integrated Cancer Service |
|---|---|---|
| Establishing a dedicated allogeneic bone marrow transplant (allograft) survivorship clinic | Austin Health | NEMICS |
| Discharging survivors in long-term follow-up and releasing outpatient capacity | Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre | WCMICS |
| Regional allied-health-led survivorship clinic | Bendigo Health | LMICS |
| Implementing a nurse-led survivorship clinic model of care within the CGHS Oncology Unit | Central Gippsland Health Service | GRICS |
| Navigating oncology survivorship services (NOSS) in the Macedon Ranges – referral pathways between acute services and the community to facilitate long-term survivorship care | Central Highlands Rural Health – Kyneton | LMICS |
| Kerang District Health lymphoedema clinic | Kerang District Health | LMICS |
| End-of-treatment nurse-practitioner-led survivorship clinic at Monash Children’s Hospital Children’s Cancer Centre | Monash Children's Hospital | PICS |
| Testicular cancer survivorship – integrating long-term follow up at Monash Health | Monash Health | SMICS |
| Evaluating physical, psychosocial, and financial challenges faced by patients undergoing treatment for metastatic breast and lung cancer | Peninsula Health | SMICS |
| Survivorship bites: development of a self-management cancer nutrition survivorship package | Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | WCMICS |
| Boost AYA: Targeting cancer-related fatigue in adolescents and young adults via a digital, evidence-informed intervention | Royal Children's Hospital | PICS |
| LotusTeen: Connecting 12–18-year-olds with the cancer information they need | Royal Children's Hospital | PICS |
| Beyond primary brain tumours – a digital expansion of Brain Tumours Online to support people with brain metastasis | Royal Melbourne Hospital | WCMICS |
| Implementing a registry for sustainable surveillance of patients who have had complete clinical response following total neoadjuvant therapy for locally advanced rectal cancer | Western Health | WCMICS |
