Health professionals
Cancer Council Australia aims to support health professionals working in the field of cancer control.
Included in this section are a series of easy-to-read factsheets to help GPs and other health professionals advise their patients about cancer prevention, screening and diagnosis.
A directory of primary care resources has also been developed. The directory provides a single point of access to state, territory and national cancer resources.
The oncology education section is designed to assist medical students, doctors and other health professionals involved in the manangement of patients with cancer.
Also included in this section is information about current fellowships available, as well as the latest conferences and events of interest to health professionals.
Additional information for health professionals can be found on the website of our affiliated clinical partner, the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia, the peak national body representing health professionals working in cancer.
Clinical guidelines:
Clinical practice guidelines bring together the best available evidence to underpin scientifically-valid recommendations for the prevention and diagnosis of cancer and treatment of care of patients.
Cancer Council Australia's Clinical Guidelines Network (formerly Australian Cancer Network) has developed high standards of preparation and evaluation of guidelines for health professionals. Equally important, most guidelines have also prepared a condensed format for use in general practice and written for patients and non-clinical readers.
Cancer Council Australia is now moving towards developing and publishing online Clinical Practice Guideli..
Clinical Guidelines Network:
Cancer Council Australia's Clinical Guidelines Network (CGN) develops and disseminates high quality, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and management of cancer. It is a service provided by Cancer Council Australia to inform clinical practice and ultimately improve cancer management in Australia. In addition, CGN also produces evidence-based information targeted towards consumers. In order to achieve its mission, the CGN links clinical experts, professional bodies and societies with an interest in cancer.
Established in 1994, the CGN has 18 years of experience in producing cancer-related guidelines for the Australian health context.
More recently Cancer Council Australia has developed a web-based Guidelines wiki platform for developing, revising and publishing up-to-date online clinical practice guidelines. Unlike written guidelines wiki-based guidelines are constantly updated as new evidence becomes available and are linked to source abstracts and other evidence-based sites that add to the value of visiting the wiki site.
More than 70 interest groups, covering basic science through medical and nursing care to public health are associated with the Network. The Network collaborates with the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia and many of these organisations to draw upon their members’ clinical expertise to produce clinical practice guidelines and meet its objectives.
Research:
Research is the key to finding answers to our questions about cancer - what causes cell damage, why cells turn cancerous, how cancer grows and spreads and how we can most effectively attack it.
State and territory Cancer Councils, which comprise the member bodies of Cancer Council Australia, are the major non-government sponsors of cancer research and related activities in Australia. Cancer Councils fund and conduct research that is based on scientific merit and competitive, peer-reviewed assessment to ensure the most judicious use of community fundraising, donations, bequests and merchandise sales.
In 2015, research grants through Cancer Councils totalled more than $70.5 million. Cancer Councils directly funded $48.1 million, with a further $22.4 million contributed by our research funding partners.
As well as research grants, a number of state and territory Cancer Councils operate epidemiological and behavioural research units that undertake research aimed at improving cancer prevention and detection
Genetics Directory:
Welcome to the Cancer Genetics Resource Directory.
The Cancer Genetics Resource Directory provides a list of Australian publications and resources for health professionals and members of the public interested in genetics to download.
The web-based family cancers directory includes information on types of family cancers, genetic testing, family cancer clinics and a searchable directory of resour
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