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News from the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre January 2021
YEAR IN REVIEW 2020
At the 3rd Victorian Cancer Survivorship Conference. From left: Prof Deb Mayer, Helana Kelly, Kyleigh Smith, Anton Enus, Prof Jon Emery, Prof Michael Jefford, Michelle Barrett.
Message from the Director
The Australian Cancer Survivorship 2020 was a challenging year for many.
Centre (ACSC) aims to improve COVID-19 continues to affect many
outcomes for people affected by aspects of our lives, including the way
cancer. We work with clinical providers we deliver and receive healthcare. We
(medical, nursing and allied health) thank our colleagues across all sectors of
at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre healthcare and the community for your
(Peter Mac) and throughout Victoria, ongoing work to support cancer survivors
as well as survivors and a range of and their families. We look forward to
organisations, to enable improved care continuing to work with you in 2021.
for survivors, their families and carers. We invite you to read our ‘Year in review’,
which highlights our many achievements
We are very grateful for ongoing funding
in 2020, including celebrating our 10th
from Peter Mac and the Victorian
birthday and co-hosting the 3rd Victorian
Government to support our work.
Cancer Survivorship Conference.
The ACSC has a statewide role in
To learn more about the ACSC or to
the development of education and
explore opportunities to collaborate,
resources for both survivors and health
visit our website petermac.org/
professionals. We provide advice
cancersurvivorship, email contactacsc@
regarding models of care, and while
petermac.org or phone +61 3 8559 6220.
our focus is not primarily on research,
we strongly support and collaborate Professor Michael Jefford
in research relevant to survivorship.
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10-year birthday
The ACSC celebrated 10 years of
service in 2020! Since 2010, the ACSC
has been providing information
and support to survivors and carers,
education and training for health
professionals, and cancer survivorship
leadership and guidance. We are
immensely proud of our achievements
to date, and grateful for your
support and input into our work.
ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2020
On the following pages, we summarise our 2020 achievements under six headings that reflect our refreshed strategic plan.
1. Provide information and support for cancer survivors and carers
Throughout 2020, we continued to Resources for culturally and Resources for young people
develop and provide information and
support for cancer survivors and carers.
linguistically diverse groups The ACSC proudly launched the
The ACSC partnered with the Western ‘Adolescents and young adults’ page,
A principal means of delivering providing resources and information
and Central Melbourne Integrated
information for survivors is the ACSC for young survivors. The information
Cancer Service (WCMICS) to develop new
website petermac.org/cancersurvivorship, was endorsed by the Victorian and
resources for culturally and linguistically
which attracted many readers in 2020. Tasmanian Youth Cancer Action Board.
diverse groups. This included translating
‘Breast cancer: follow-up of survivors of
the written resource ‘How to prepare for
breast cancer‘ was the most frequently Webinars
check-ups’ into six languages (traditional
downloaded resource, with more
Chinese, simple Chinese, Greek, Italian, In November, we presented the Cancer
than 170 downloads. We also added
Arabic, Vietnamese) and developing Wellness Program (previously known
information to the website about
an audio-recording ‘On the road to as Wellness and Life after Cancer) – an
‘Self-management‘, promoting the
recovery’ in six languages (Arabic, initiative of Cancer Council Victoria.
value of taking control of one’s own
Italian, Greek, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Typically provided as a full-day, face-
health by acquiring information and
Hindi). A promotional video was also to-face event, the 90-minute webinar
skills that help survivors cope with
created to support health professionals was attended by 38 cancer survivors
cancer treatment and follow-up.
to effectively deliver cancer survivorship among a total of 51 attendees. Videos on
information to people from culturally key topics are available to view here.
Common Survivorship Issues
and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Directory We also proudly contributed to several
We thank WCMICS for their funding consumer-focused webinars, including
This directory petermac.org/survdirect is and support of this important project. those convened by the Australia and
a central hub for commonly experienced To access these resources, please New Zealand Sarcoma Association
cancer survivorship issues, offering visit petermac.org/languages and Melanoma Patients Australia.
information and tools to support cancer
survivors. In 2020 the directory was
expanded to include three new topics,
bringing the total number of topics to
13. The directory was accessed 6526
times, with cancer-related fatigue
being the most widely accessed issue.
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2. Provide education and training for health professionals
The ACSC continued to provide learning
opportunities and develop resources for
health professionals throughout 2020.
Cancer Survivorship course –
eviQ
We re-launched our revamped, free
online education for health professionals:
‘Cancer survivorship’. Hosted on eviQ
Education (a Cancer Institute NSW site),
this six-module introductory course
is relevant for all health professionals
interested or working in cancer
survivorship. The course includes the
most up-to-date evidence, explores the
health needs of cancer survivors, and
presents tools, guidelines, frameworks Panelists at the allied health survivorship webinar. From top left: Helen Gilby, Dr Fiona Lynch, Dr Nicole Kiss,
Prof Ray Chan, Andrew Murnane, Denise Beovich, Helana Kelly, Lauren Atkins.
and strategies to provide optimal
cancer survivorship care. Each module Delivering Innovative Cancer Association, the Victorian Comprehensive
can be completed individually. Cancer Centre (VCCC) and COSA to
Survivorship Care
Please visit eviQ Education today and deliver a survivorship-focused webinar
provide your feedback so we can continue In December, 54 people attended the for primary care health professionals,
to improve this important resource. ‘Delivering innovative cancer survivorship with 117 people in attendance, a further
care’ webinar. This free, virtual course 186 have watched the recording,
was open to health professionals and which you can access here.
Module 1
included key survivorship issues including
Survivorship fundamentals We were also pleased to be panellists
the common experiences of cancer
Cancer Survivorship at two Melbourne Metropolitan
survivors, promotion of wellness and
Primary Health Network webinars
self-management, and motivational
Module 2 on implementing Optimal Care
interviewing techniques. Typically run
Models of survivorship care Pathways and a panellist at the
face to face, this modified event still
Cancer Survivorship Murray Primary Health Network
received excellent feedback, such as:
webinar exploring the same topic.
‘Thank you so much for this wonderful
Module 3 session, it is very beneficial for our daily
A multidisciplinary approach nursing practice! Much appreciated!‘
Cancer Survivorship
Webinars
Module 4 In August, the ACSC partnered with
Survivorship care plans Cancer Council Victoria and the Clinical
Cancer Survivorship Oncology Society of Australia (COSA)
to present a free, allied health cancer
Module 5 survivorship webinar on ‘The important
Self-management
Cancer Survivorship
role allied health plays in the care of
cancer patients post-treatment – an
Peter Mac award
interactive case review’. Three hundred
Module 6 and twenty-two health professionals The ACSC received a 2020 Peter
Wellbeing watched the webinar live, and close Mac Award in the category
to 200 have subsequently watched the ‘World-class cancer education’.
Cancer Survivorship
recording, which you can access here. Throughout 2020, the ACSC
We also partnered with the Royal team delivered over one dozen
Australian College of General high-quality education initiatives,
Practitioners, Cancer Council Victoria, the providing education to more
Australian Primary Health Care Nurses than 1000 health professionals.
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3. Support improved models of survivorship care
Electronic medical record and Following R1, six criteria were removed, Online survivorship care plan
six were added, and 18 criteria were
survivorship care revised based on free-text comments.
generator
Peter Mac, Melbourne Health and the Following R2, 30 quality criteria were mycareplan.org.au is an online
Royal Women’s hospitals all moved retained (the framework). These included survivorship care plan generator that
to the Epic electronic medical record presence of a policy for the provision was launched in 2019. 2020 saw 1722
(EMR) system in August 2020. The ACSC of survivorship care, having processes users, with 358 care plans created.
worked closely with clinical services and for the assessment of emotional, Successful funding from the Victorian
the EMR team to develop templates to psychological and physical effects and Government will allow for expansion
support development and delivery of provision of services to manage issues, of mycareplan.org.au as part of the
survivorship care plans. This will support a process for stratification to different ‘Embed and spread’ project in 2021.
continuity of care for cancer survivors and models of care, and collecting data on
primary care providers post-treatment. patient-reported outcomes, including Resources
quality of life, and survival rates.
There is an agreed need to enhance
Quality framework for cancer This work is outlined in the Victorian the model of post-treatment care
survivorship care in Victoria Cancer Plan 2020–24, and the ACSC for cancer survivors. To enable more
Funded by the Victorian Government, will continue the work in 2021. people to learn about models of
we undertook an environmental scan survivorship care, in 2020 we:
and literature review to develop a Improving models of care • published ‘Models of survivorship
Quality Cancer Survivorship Framework throughout Victoria care’ on our website
as part of the broader project titled • developed ‘Recommendations
The Victorian Government-funded
‘How do we define and measure for implementing and delivering
project, ‘Embed and spread optimal
optimal care for cancer survivors?’ shared survivorship care‘ in both
cancer survivorship across Victoria’,
These informed an online modified full and summary formats
aims to increase commitment to and
reactive Delphi study conducted over
awareness of cancer survivorship care. • created a rapid learning
two rounds. Participants were Australian
In 2020, the ACSC commenced Project video (3 minutes) to explain
and international, and included
1, which will involve virtual educational different models of care
consumers, multidisciplinary healthcare
roadshows to 15 Victorian cancer services, • developed three short videos (3
providers, researchers, policymakers,
following a survey of sites’ current minutes) on nurse-led follow-
and quality and accreditation staff.
survivorship services. Project 2 (guided up care. The videos will be
Statements describing quality criteria for by the results of Project 1) will expand available in early 2021.
the Round 1 (R1) survey were presented mycareplan.org.au (currently available for
in three domains: policy, process and survivors of early-stage breast, bowel and
outcomes, participants were asked prostate cancers) to three further tumour
to rate the importance of each of types. Stay tuned for more in 2021!
68 criteria on a five-point scale, and
could make comments and suggest
additions. Quantitative data were
analysed according to pre-determined
scoring thresholds and results used to
develop the Round 2 (R2) survey. In
R2, participants ranked their 10 most
important items within each domain.
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4. Conduct and support survivorship research
The 3rd Victorian Cancer Victorian Cancer Survivorship ASCO Quality Care Symposium
Survivorship conference Research Forum
The ACSC was pleased to present on
The 3rd Victorian Cancer Survivorship Hosted by the ACSC, the 4th Victorian ‘Defining and measuring quality cancer
Conference was held in Melbourne Cancer Survivorship Research Forum was survivorship care: an environmental scan’;
just before COVID-19 restrictions. open to anyone interested or involved the presentation can be accessed here.
Co-hosted by the ACSC and the in cancer survivorship research. Held
VCCC, we welcomed almost 200 via webinar in November, the forum COSA Annual Scientific Meeting
local and international delegates. featured Prof Ray Chan who spoke about COSA’s 47th Annual Scientific Meeting
building successful research partnerships focused on three themes: quality and
The conference theme was ‘A 2020
through the Queensland Collaborative safety, implementation science and
Vision – building on learnings, partnering
for Cancer Survivorship. PhD candidate cardio-oncology. The meeting was
for success’. Keynote speakers included
Imogen Ramsey (University of South virtual for the first time and attracted
Anton Enus, SBS nightly news anchor
Australia) discussed her work developing a multidisciplinary group. ACSC’s
and ambassador for Bowel Cancer
a core patient-reported outcome set for Karolina Lisy presented on the project
Australia, who shared meaningful
survivorship. Dr Maria Ftanou spoke about ‘How do we define and measure
insights into his lived experience as a
the study ‘Feasibility and acceptability optimal care for cancer survivors?’
bowel cancer survivor. International
of Fear-less: a stepped-care program to
guests Professor Deborah Mayer (US)
manage fear of cancer recurrence in Global Academic Programs (GAP)
presented on ‘Defining and delivering
people with metastatic melanoma’. conference
quality survivorship care’ and ‘Promoting
healthy behaviours in survivors’. The theme for the GAP 2020 conference
Professor Adam Glaser (UK) presented
Conference presentations
was ‘New frontiers: leading inspired
virtually on ‘Patient-reported outcomes We continued to contribute to research, cancer care’. Co-hosted by Peter Mac
in survivors, also considering partners presenting at several conferences. the conference was fully virtual and
and carers’ and ‘Progress beyond the UK connected members from across
National Cancer Survivorship Initiative’. The 3rd Victorian Cancer Survivorship MD Anderson’s 52 sister institution
Professor Afaf Girgis reported on Conference network. The conference explored how
‘Trajectories of functioning in survivors Convened in March 2020, presentations the integration of new technologies
and partners/caregivers’ and ‘Routine included Prof Jefford on ‘Evaluation is changing cancer care, while also
implementation of PROs in clinical care’. of the second phase of the Victorian highlighting the importance of keeping
Winners of the conference Cancer Survivorship Program’, ‘SCORE: patients central in thinking and practice.
awards included: a randomised controlled trial examining Prof Jefford and consumer advocate Meg
shared care (oncology/general practice) Rynderman contributed to a webinar
• Best student presentation on survivorship care and Helana Kelly
for colorectal survivors’ and (with
– Dr Victoria Garwood presented on the evaluation of the ACSC.
Helana Kelly, Manager ACSC) ‘Review
• Best oral presentation and evaluation of the Australian Cancer
– Nathan Harrison Survivorship Centre’. There were further
• Best poster presentation presentations from ACSC staff, including
– Paula Howell Dr Karolina Lisy and Nicole Kinnane.
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Student research 2020 publications
The ACSC continued to work with and The ACSC continued to contribute to research publications.
support students during 2020. Lena
Ly, a biomedicine honours student, Publications Other survivorship papers we were
completed work on the statewide pleased to contribute to include:
The following 2020 publications
quality framework for survivorship were ACSC-led or in partnership Eakin EG, Reeves MM, Goode AD, Winkler
care in Victoria. Olivia Haeusler, an with others at Peter Mac: EAH, Vardy JL, Boyle F, Haas MR, Hiller
applied science (professional) student, JE, Mishra GD, Jefford M, Koczwara
commenced work on a pilot project Garwood V, Lisy K, Jefford M. Survivorship B, Saunders CM, Chapman K, Hing L,
in colorectal cancer: a cohort study of Boltong AG, Lane K, Baldwin P, Millar L,
relating to volunteers and cancer the patterns and documented content McKiernan S, Demark-Wahnefried W,
survivors at the Parkville precinct, which of follow-up visits. J Clin Med 2020 Aug Courneya KS, Job J, Reid N, Robson E,
will be completed by the ACSC in 2021. 24;9(9):E2725. doi: 10.3390/jcm9092725. Moretto N, Gordon L, Hayes SC. Translating
research into practice: outcomes from the
Jefford M, Koczwara B, Emery J,
University Cancer Case Thornton-Benko E, Vardy J. The
Healthy Living after Cancer Partnership
Project. BMC Cancer 2020;20(1):963.
Competition important role of general practice
doi: 10.1186/s12885-020-07454-4.
in the care of cancer survivors. Aust
The ACSC and the VCCC collaborated with J Gen Pract 2020;49(5):288–92. Howell D, Mayer DK, Fielding R, Eicher
the Australian Cancer and Health Sciences M, Verdonck-de Leeuw IM, Johansen C,
Lisy K, Kent J, Dumbrell J, Kelly H, Piper
Competition to support the University Soto-Perez-de-Celis E, Foster C, Chan R,
A, Jefford M. Sharing cancer survivorship
Cancer Case Competition which, in 2020, Alfano CM, Hudson SV, Jefford M, Lam
care between oncology and primary care
encouraged undergraduate students to WWT, Loerzel V, Pravettoni G, Rammant E,
providers: a qualitative study of health care
Schapira L, Stein KD, Kocswara B; Global
consider solutions to cancer survivorship professionals’ experiences. J Clin Med 2020
Partners for Self-Management in Cancer.
issues. The competition received 72 Sep 16;9(9):E2991. doi: 10.3390/jcm9092991.
Management of cancer and health after
registered teams (total 260 students), Lisy K, Kent J, Piper A, Jefford M. the clinic visit: a call to action for self-
where 66 teams put forward submissions Facilitators and barriers to shared primary management in cancer care. J Natl Cancer
(compared to 44 received in 2019). The and specialist cancer care: a systematic Inst 2020 Jun 11. Online ahead of print.
winning group, ‘Climbing out of cancer’, review. Support Care Cancer 2020 Aug
Mollica MA, Mayer DK, Oeffinger KC, Kim
are undertaking a summer internship 17. doi: 10.1007/s00520-020-05624-5.
Y, Buckenmaier SS, Sivaram S, Muha C,
with the VCCC and the ACSC and will Lisy K, Lai-Kwon J, Ward A, Sandhu Taib NA, Andritsch E, Asuzu CC, Bochis
present to the Cancer Survivorship S, Kasparian NA, Winstanley J, Boyle OV, Diaz S, Trill MD, Garcia PJ, Grassi L,
Advisory Committee in early 2021. The F, Gyorki D, Lacey K, Bishop J, Jefford Uchitomi Y, Shaikh AJ, Jefford M, Lee
runner-up group, ‘Transfer of trust, M. Patient-reported outcomes in HJ, Johansen C, Luyirika E, Maher EJ,
melanoma survivors at 1, 3 and 5 years Mallillin MMB, Maniragaba T, Mehnert-
survivorship care program’, presented Theuerkauf A, Pramesh CS, Siesling S,
post-diagnosis: a population-based
to the committee in November 2020. cross-sectional study. Qual Life Res Spira O, Sussman J, Tang L, Hai NV,
2020 Mar 5. Online ahead of print. Yalcin S, Jacobsen PB. Follow-up care
for breast and colorectal cancer across
Lynch FA, Katona L, Jefford M, Smith AB, the globe: survey findings from 27
Sham J, Dhillon HM, Ellen S, Phipps-Nelson countries. JCO Global Oncol 6:1394–1411.
J, Lai-Kwon J, Milne D, Russell L, Dax V,
Diggens J, Kent H, Button-Sloan A, Elliott
Book chapter
J, Shackleton M, Burridge H, Ftanou M.
Feasibility and acceptability of fear-less: Lisy K, Hulbert-Williams N, Ussher JM,
a stepped-care program to manage fear Alpert A, Kamen C & Jefford M. Lesbian,
of cancer recurrence in people with gay, bisexual, and transgender issues.
metastatic melanoma. J Clin Med 2020 Sep In: M Watson & D Kissane (eds), Sexual
14;9(9):E2969. doi: 10.3390/jcm9092969. health, fertility, and relationships in cancer
care, Oxford University Press, 2020:1–10.
Skandarajah AR, Lisy K, Ward A, Bishop
J, Lacey K, Mann B, Jefford M. Patient- For more information on survivorship
reported outcomes in survivors of research, including current and
breast cancer one, three and five years
completed projects, opportunities
post-diagnosis: a cancer-registry based
feasibility study. Qual Life Res 2020 Sep for students and publications,
30. doi: 10.1007/s11136-020-02652-w. visit the Survivorship and Living
Well after Cancer page.
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5. Provide leadership around cancer survivorship
Victorian Survivorship In July, the NGO Survivorship Advocacy contributions to service delivery,
Alliance Working Party prepared a international literature, policy and
Community of Practice letter to the Federal Minister for Health, program development. He is also the
The Victorian Survivorship Community strongly supporting the retention of Chair of COSA’s Cancer Survivorship
of Practice brings together health telehealth item numbers through Group and the Chair of the Survivorship
professionals with an interest in cancer and beyond the COVID-19 period. A Special Interest Group with the
survivorship and the implementation positive response was received from International Psycho-Oncology Society.
of new models of care, providing an the Hon Greg Hunt MP acknowledging Dr Karolina Lisy is an executive member
opportunity to discuss key aspects of the position of the Alliance. of COSA’s Cancer Survivorship Group.
cancer survivorship. With the July event
The Community Support Organisations’
cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions,
Cancer Survivorship Care Consensus
Partnering with cancer
the October webinar agenda was survivors
Statement was updated in December
full and attracted 80 attendees.
2020 with the inclusion of 12 additional The ACSC website includes a number
Presenters included Ms Karen Botting
signatories, bringing the total number of survivorship stories from consumers
(Department of Health and Human
to 31. The ACSC looks forward to coordinated by ACSC consumer
Services), Prof Janette Vardy (Sydney
continuing these partnerships in 2021. If advocate, Meg Rynderman. Meg
Cancer Survivorship Centre) and Prof
your community support organisation wrote her own survivor story 10 years
Bogda Koczwara (Flinders Health
would like to know more about NGO ago and in 2020 published ‘10 years
and Medical Research Institute).
forums and the Alliance, please on – my story retold’. Videos of Meg
The Online Collaborative Workspace, email contactacsc@petermac.org. and her husband, John, talking about
which is open to interested health their experience of cancer survivorship
professionals, in 2020 consisted in brief videos, are available here.
of 458 members. This online COMMUNITY SUPPORT
space is a forum to share ideas, ORGANISATIONS’ Meg also told Malcolm
Chandler’s story ‘We didn’t have
events, project updates and more Cancer slip slop slap back then’.
relating to cancer survivorship. Survivorship Care
For further information or to join Consensus We encourage you to read these
the Community of Practice or the Statement survivorship stories and more
Online Collaborative Workspace, DECEMBER 2020 by visiting the ACSC website.
email contactacsc@petermac.org.
PURPOSE
Non-government Committee membership
To articulate the vital role of community support
organisations in the provision of survivorship care to
Australians of all ages who have been diagnosed with
organisation collaboration The ACSC continues to provide
cancer.
AUDIENCE
leadership in cancer survivorship
• primary care providers
Non-government organisations (NGOs) •
•
•
hospital-based providers
on state, national and international
community support organisation providers and patient organisations
funders
have an important role in supporting •
•
•
policy makers (State and Federal Government)
committees. Examples of some
researchers
cancer survivors and those affected by cancer
cancer survivors. The ACSC remains (but notINTENDED
all) of
USE the advisory
committed to working with NGOs to committee work we do are below:
To communicate the role of community support organisations in providing
survivorship care in order to: promote better understanding amongst audience
groups, to consider how community providers can be best incorporated as part of the
achieve optimal care and outcomes continuum of care, to improve integrated referral pathways, to support advocacy and
collaboration within the sector (including collaborative funding opportunities) and to
improve understanding across the health sector more broadly.
for cancer survivors. The ‘Cancer Prof Michael Jefford is Chair-Elect
survivorship in the NGO sector’ forum 2020–21 (to be Chair 2021–22) of the
was held in March, with 16 NGOs American Society of Clinical Oncology
in attendance. The forum included (ASCO) Cancer Survivorship Committee.
presentations on the top six advocacy This appointment – the first person
issues pertaining to cancer survivorship from outside the United States to chair
for NGOs, created opportunities for the committee – recognises Professor
collaboration and facilitated discussion Jefford’s international standing in
of the published consensus statement. cancer survivorship and his significant
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6. D
eliver a robust, collaborative and
sustainable program Planning ahead
In 2021 and beyond,
our plans include:
• launching the ACSC
Strategic Plan 2020–25
• delivering the project ‘Embed
and spread optimal cancer
survivorship across Victoria’
• continuing to develop
and publish survivorship
resources for consumers
and health professionals
on the ACSC website
• continuing to work with the
Parkville electronic medical
record team to incorporate
survivorship resources
• presenting at the Flinders–
COSA meeting Cancer
Survivorship Conference Life
after Cancer - Redefined,
The team in 2020 Reimagined and Rebuilt,
We thank everyone who has worked with us this year! 18–19 March 2021, Adelaide
• working with Peter Mac
Our website Social media and Parkville colleagues
to improve the models of
During 2020, the ACSC website was In February 2020, the ACSC launched
post-treatment care
accessed 26,047 times with 20,390 unique our social media presence:
page views! People visiting our website • presenting and
Twitter (@ACSC_PeterMac):
spent an average of 1.28 minutes on publishing our work
The ACSC had more than
the homepage. The most frequently 200,000 Twitter impressions • planning for the 4th Victorian
viewed pages were the ACSC homepage (number of times users saw ACSC’s Cancer Survivorship Conference
and the ‘Survivors and carers’ page. tweets). Since the inception of our to be held in 2022
The ACSC is proud to provide Twitter handle in March, we have more • delivering a volunteer-led
resources for survivors, carers than 380 followers and 240 tweets. survivorship pilot project
and health professionals. There with Parkville Head and
LinkedIn (Australian Cancer
were over 4000 downloaded PDF Neck Cancer Services and
Survivorship Centre):
resources throughout 2020! Cancer Council Victoria.
Follow the ACSC on
In 2020 we developed four newsletters social media for event updates,
and a Year in Review summary new resources and research!
to add to our publications.
Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre
Locked Bag 1, A’Beckett Street
Melbourne VIC 8006
Email: contactacsc@petermac.org
petermac.org/cancersurvivorship
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