Friday, 13th November Clinical Oncology Society of Australia Annual Scientific Meeting 2026

For more information, visit the Breakfast Sessions page. 

For more information, visit the Breakfast Sessions page. 

• “It simplified it and made it seem less scary”: Evaluating Easy Read cancer information for people with low literacy  - Jenni Bruce
• Barriers to chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy care cluster by pathway step: mapping determinants to target implementation strategies - Maria Gonzalez
• Psychopathology frameworks in psycho-oncology: A comparative evaluation of clinical utility - Annika Hegde
• Optimising access to cancer care for rural and remote communities: A narrative review and baseline audit of Cancer Council’s 13 11 20 phone line and digital service to inform Australia’s new Cancer Navigation Service  - Lizzy Johnston
• From Six Reviews to One Service Diagnosis: AI-Assisted Evaluation of Regional Cancer MDT Performance - Abhishek Joshi
• From vaping to smoking: modelling the future health burden among people who have never smoked - Quang Nguyen
• Delivering value in cancer care: costing analysis of a nurse-led geriatric oncology model of care - Alexandra Powell
• Cost savings associated with early palliative care in those affected by cancer - Chris Schilling
• A non-PSA risk prediction model for clinically significant prostate cancer: development and validation in a large Australian cohort - Pavla Vaneckova
• Join the Bandwagon - A Study of the Cost and Sustainability Benefits of Automated Dose Banding in a Cancer Electronic Prescribing System - Tianyi (Tina) Wang
• When precision reaches the patient: scaling personalised, multidisciplinary supportive cancer care, 2020–2026 - Lauren Whiting
• Shaping GyN Care: Development of national gynaecological cancer nursing guidance through a sequential mixed methods study - Georgia Halkett

• Ensuring positive and inclusive workplace experiences for people of all ages - Robert Fitzgerald AM
• Creating organizational cultures to support equity and quality in cancer care - Tara C Horrill
• The Cancer Workforce We Need: Aboriginal Health Workers, Health Practitioners and Shared Decision Making in Equitable Cancer Care     - David J Follent
• Workforce matters: Cancer nursing insights to improve culture and quality outcomes - Natalie Bradford

This session includes a 30-minute panel discussion and will be joined by James Lynam. 

• Predicting, Preventing, and Surviving Cancer: Insights from Population-Scale Data     - Elina Hypponen
• Smarter Cancer Medicines: Predicting Exposure and Response with AI and Advanced Biomarkers - Andrew Rowland
• The intersection of biomarkers, translational research, and emerging AI-driven approaches in oncology - Herbert Loong

This session includes a panel discussion. 

• Menopause in youth post cancer treatment: a lived experience. - Grace Kennedy
• Managing menopause: A medical oncology perspective - Belinda E Kiely
• Managing menopause: A nursing perspective - Gillian Neil
• Supporting early menopause after cancer: A clinical psychology perspective - Emma Minchin
• Managing menopause after cancer: a health services approach - Michelle Peate

This session includes a 30-minute panel discussion. 

• Digital Innovation and Patient-Led Service Provision for Nutrition Care in Oncology Outpatients - Claire Blake
• Muscle matters: Body composition, sarcopenia and clinical outcomes in patients with head and neck cancer receiving immunotherapy - Teresa Brown
• Transitions in Cancer Survivorship: Implementing pathways from hospital to personalised multidisciplinary community based care - Rebecca McIntosh
• From Treatment to Thriving: The Role of Nutrition and Efficient Triage in Survivorship Care - Hattie H Wright
• Personalised nutrition in palliative care - Jodie Ellis

This session includes a 15-minute panel discussion. 

• Screening outcomes from a multicomponent GP-led intervention to improve bowel cancer screening  - Eleonora Feletto
• Optimising investment in colorectal cancer screening promotion interventions in Australia: a modelling study - Anna Kelly
• Projected impact of low-dose CT lung cancer screening on radiotherapy demand and delivery in Australia: a novel modelling study - Fadi Maghak
• Effectiveness of electronic patient-reported outcome measures for improving real-world routine cancer care: The pragmatic, randomised controlled PROMISE trial. - Ingrid J Rowlands
• Improving equitable access to gonadal tissue cryopreservation through a national oncofertility network  - Aisling Murphy
• Projected unmet need for specialist palliative care in Australia: a national workforce model - Chris Schilling
• The role of the pharmacist in PGx service delivery - Kerry Watts

• Patient and clinician perspectives on routine surveillance imaging in pancreaticobiliary and gastroesophageal cancer - Luna Rodriguez Grieve
• Bundled INtervention to improve Decision-making in advanced cancER (BINDER): Patient and clinician perspectives on decision coaching to support shared decision-making - Samuel X Stevens
• Qualitative exploration of PARP-inhibitor long-term users in recurrent ovarian cancer - Gowri Shivasabesan
• Developing precision communication practice in neuro-oncology; the evolution of the ICONIC program. - Dianne M Legge
• Understanding patient Recruitment and Retention factors In Non-intervEntional FET-PET In Glioblastoma (FIGURINES) - Sharon He

This session includes a 25-minute panel discussion. 

• Implementing precision oncology into routine cancer care: Realities and Reflections  - Natalie Taylor
• We Can Build It… But Will It Embed? Realities and Reflections on Implementing Lung Cancer Screening in Australia - Nicole M Rankin
• CHALLENGE: The path to implementation of exercise oncology into routine cancer care - Haryana Dhillon and Janette Vardy

This session includes a 30-minute panel discussion and will be joined by Geoff Delaney.

• How to find the power of humanity by embracing the mess - Monty Badami
• Human-centred cancer care: a public health perspective - Marianne Gale
• The evolution of AI in the fight against cancer - Matthew Kuperholz