2019 Congress Presentations
The presentations listed below are for all speakers/presenters who consented to publish their presentation on the congress website.
Please click on the session below to view the available presentations for that particular session.
Thursday 20 June
Pre-Congress Symposiums
Writing for Publication
Skin in the game - protecting vulnerable skin and CVAD securement
Neuroendocrine Tumours (NETS) - not as rare as you think! The complex disease course and management
Time for a change: putting evidence into practice
Care at the crossroads of cancer and age. Older people with cancer - a cancer nurse's need to know'
Cancer Nurse Wellbeing Workshop
Friday 21 June
Official Opening
Plenary Session 1
Plenary Session 2
Concurrent 1 - Radiation Oncology
Concurrent 2 - Breast Oncology
Concurrent 3 - The role of nursing in Antimicrobial Stewardship
Concurrent 4 - Specialist Nursing
Concurrent 5 - Patient Experience
Concurrent 6 - Medicinal Cannabis
Concurrent 7 - Chimeric Antigen Receptor (Car)T-cell Therapy - The Nurse Experience
Concurrent 8 - Models of Care
Concurrent 9 - Research
Concurrent 10 - Quality, safety and education
Saturday 22 June
Plenary Session 3
Concurrent 12 - Adult and young adolescent oncology specialist practice network session
Concurrent 13 - Living well with ovarian cancer: a practical management session by key opinion experts with a focus on the more holistic elements of ovarian cancer patient support
Concurrent 14 - Models of care
Concurrent 15 - Nurse-led interventions
Concurrent 16 - Care in the rural and regional setting
Plenary Session 4
Thursday 20 June
Writing for Publication
Tish Lancaster, Moira Stephens, Karen Strickland, Jacqueline Bloomfield
Skin in the game - protecting vulnerable skin and CVAD securement
Jill Campbell - Anatomy and Physiology of the skin - presentation not available for publication
Amanda Ullman - Medical adhesive-related skin injury (MARSI)
Nicole Gavin - Estimating Prevalence of Impaired Skin surrounding Devices in cancer care: the preliminary results of a prospective study
Kerrie Curtis - The 10 principles of dressing management
Amanda Ullman - How to implement a CVAD-associated skin impairment algorithm in your hospital
Neuroendocrine Tumours (NETS) - not as rare as you think! The complex disease course and management
Dev Kevat - Neuroendocrine Tumours and Hormonal Syndromes
David Chan - Carcinoid Heart Disease
Gabby Cehic - NETs – Not as rare as you think ! The role – and complications- of PRRT
Paul James - Genetics - presentation pending publication
Caley Schnaid - Nutrition Needs of NETS - presentation embargoed until 23 July
Meredith Cummins - NETS - What are we doing?
Time for a change: putting evidence into practice
Linda Watson - The role of research in clinical practice – how can we achieve evidence-based practice?
Elisabeth Coyne - Identifying a clinical problem
Leisa Brown-West - Implementing evidence-based practice
Doreen Tapsall - Leading Change, Developing Collaboration, Best Practice
Care at the crossroads of cancer and age. Older people with cancer - a cancer nurse's 'need to know'
Marilyn Dolling - Lived Experience
Claire Maddison - Oncology and the Older Person - presentation not available for publication
Snezana Kusljic - Polypharmacy, Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Jude Bulten - Nursing and care for the older person
Catherine Devereux - Rapid fire session - Current Practice Examples - presentation pending publication
Tracey Daffy - The Yellow Form - Supportive Care Screening Tool
Sandra MacIver - Rapid fire session - Current Practice Examples - presentation pending publication
Tracey Bucki - Monash Health Geriatric Oncology Clinic: improving care for older persons with cancer
Julie Symons - Individualised cancer rehabilitation with pathways for optimising services for older people in a rural setting - presentation not available for publication
Lea Marshall - Rapid fire session - Current Practice Examples - presentation pending publication
Cancer Nurse Wellbeing Workshop
The Cancer Nurse Wellbeing workshop was presented by Anne Williams, Nigel Williams, Susan Slatyer & Vicki Cope
Cancer Nurse Wellbeing Part One
Cancer Nurse Wellbeing Part Two
Cancer Nurse Wellbeing Part Three
Friday 21 June
Official Opening
Associate Professor Graeme Hart
Plenary Session 1
Embedding patient reported outcomes into practice - Dr Linda Watson
PROMS in healthcare: the missing steps - Associate Professor Karla Gough
Plenary Session 2
Professor Richard Osborne - Health literacy: a framework to understand and respond to the needs of patients, carers, community and health professionals - presentation publication is pending
The role of the specialist nurse: how do we add value today and what does the future hold? -
Panel session, no presentation slides are available
Concurrent Session 1: Radiation Oncology
Rae Blades - StrataXRT Randomised Clinical Trial
Melissa Newton - Mepitel Film
Joshua Hart - Solugel vs Dermeze - presentation not available for publication
Gabby Vigar - Radiation Oncology and Qualitative Research
Gerry Hanna - New RT delivery techniques: SRS, SABR, Protons, Gammaknife - 'Targeting Cancer 'more precisely
Ben Smith - Fear of Cancer Recurrence
Beth Ivimey - The challenges in setting up a survivorship clinic in a culturally diverse community
Concurrent Session 2 : Breast Oncology
Professor Bruce Mann - De-escalation of breast cancer local therapy trials
Associate Professor Elisabeth Elder - Neoadjuvant Trials – not just for inoperable tumours
Dr Ben Forster - Trials in Metastatic Breast Cancer
Jenny Gilchrist - Increasing recruitment: Empowering nurses and empowering patients
Concurrent Session 3: The role of nursing in Antimicrobial Stewardship
Jason Trubiano - What is antimicrobial stewardship?
Noeleen Bennett - Nurses and Antimicrobial Stewardship National Antimicrobial Prescribing Survey
Cheryl Jackson - The role of nursing in antimicrobial stewardship - It’s all in the delivery – the role of appropriate dosing and administration - presentation permission pending
Belinda Lambros - Antibiotic Allergies: What is our role as nurses?
Kelly Sykes - Think Sepsis. Act Fast
Concurrent Session 4: Specialist Nursing
Mei Krishnasamy - Investing in cancer nursing research capability. A win for patients
Nicole Gavin - Developing a nursing research internship
Anne Williams - A one day wellbeing workshop for cancer nurses: Can it make a difference?
Maira Kentwell - Changing a nation: the development and evaluation of a training program for oncology health professionals in the provision of genetic testing for ovarian cancer patients - presentation not available for publication
Stacey Fuller - Postgraduate Pathway Cancer Program
Mei Krishnasamy - Defining expertise in cancer nursing
Concurrent Session 5: Patient Experience
Xanthe Jones - Educating and informing consumers and staff about quality and safety at a comprehensive cancer centre: Development of unit based "Quality Boards"and the 'Quality Huddle'
Ruth Pethybridge - The role and perspectives of family caregivers concerning SyMptom Self-Management support for patients with advanced cancer: A qualitative study
Catherine Paterson - What are the daily "real time"self-management behaviours performed by men affected by prostate cancer?
Mel Noke - Exploring the sense of community, peer support and loneliness of AYAs impacted by cancer who use the CONNECT (Chat OnliNE at CanTeen) service
Donna Gairns - Improving the experience for those affected by lymphoma in Australia
Carlie Nielson - Patient journaling: Raising the patient voice in a complex cancer care environment
Concurrent Session 6: Medicinal Cannabis
Dr Sanjay Nijhawan and Resham Tolani - presentation not available for publication
Concurrent Session 7: Chimeric Antigen Receptor (Car)T-cell Therapy - The Nurse Experience
Paige Marino - Introduction to CarT Cells
Shae Disney - The Cell Journey
Michelle Hudson - CAR-T Cell Therapy in Clinical Trials - presentation permission pending
Nicole O'Leary - Commercially Preparing a Car-T Cell Centre
Concurrent Session 8: Models of Care
Nicole Kinnane - Exploring current guidelines for post treatment care for women with intermediate to high risk endometrial cancer - a scoping review
Mary Shanahan - Development of a nurse enabled optimal pathway of care for young adults under 25 with a CDH1 genetic mutation
Natalie Bradford - Unmet needs and effects on quality of life of young cancer survivors: results from the ARCHWAY study
Olivia Cook - The gynaecological oncology specialist nurse role from the perspective of the multi-disciplinary team
Concurrent Session 9: Research
Jane Phillips - Phase II cluster randomised waitlist controlled trial of a multicomponent non-pharmacological intervention to prevent delirium for inpatients with advanced cancer
Theodora Ogle - A systematic review of the effectiveness of self initiated interventions to decrease pain and sensory disturbances associated with peripheral neuropathy
Sue Hegarty - Genetic testing and ovarian cancer: the changing attitudes and experiences of women impacted by the disease
Ashanya Malalasekera - Why do delays to diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer occur? A mixed methods study of insights from Australian clinicians
Concurrent Session 10: Quality, safety and education
Elisabeth Coyne - Position statement for practice recommendations for safe nursing administration of chemotherapy
Michael Collins - The implications for cancer nurses following the legalization of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria - presentation not available for publication
Rachael Lonergan - CanDo: the app that turns empathy into action
Jane Phillips - Measuring the quality of palliative care in the hospial setting - co-designing improvement measures with patients and families/carers
Saturday 22 June
Plenary 3
Dr Linda Watson - Redesigning care in the context of digital health
Associate Professor Leanne Stone - The future is now! Optimising cancer care in the digital era
Concurrent Session 12: Adult and young adolescent oncology specialist practice network session
Professor Susan Sawyer - presentation not available for publication
Cath O'Dwyer - presentation publication pending
Donna Gairns - Improving the experience for those affected by lymphoma in Australia
Kelly Skelton - presentation publication pending
Melissa Jones - panel presentation, no slides are available
Concurrent Session 13 - Living well with ovarian cancer: a practical management session by key opinion experts with a focus on the more holistic elements of ovarian cancer patient support
Associate Professor Linda Mileshkin - New developments in the treatment of ovarian cancer - presentation not available for publication
Nicole Kinnane - Living well with ovarian cancer
Prue Cormie - Exercise as medicine for cancer
Jane Fletcher - Fear of cancer recurrence
Concurrent Session 14: Models of Care
Tracey Daffy - Older people with cancer helping us to help them: a Wimmera supportive care experience
Vanessa Brunelli - Expectations, standards and performance framework to support the Lung Cancer Support Nurse of Lung Cancer Foundation Australia
Sue Bartlett - To improve symptom management for patients currently on immunotherapy living in the Loddon Mallee Region
Jennifer Fox - Opportunities for cancer nurses: telehealth in survivorship care - presentation not available for publication
Anita Edwards - Driving change: how nurse-led clinics make a differentce patients with Myelofibrosis
Louise Koelmeyer - Early surveillance is associated with less incidence and severity of breast cancer-related lymphoedema compared with a traditional referral model of care - presentation publication pending
Concurrent Session 15: Nurse-led interventions
Rae Blades - A single-blind randomised controlled trial of StrataXRT - a silicone based-based film forming gel dressing prophylaxis and management of radiation dermatitis in patient with head and neck cancer
Nicole Gavin - Hands up for hand hygiene in cancer care
Diane Davey - A smartphone photography guide for head and neck cancer patients to help track post treatment radiodermatitis
Megan Kepreotis - TRAC (tracheostomy review and care) - nurse led program caring for oncology patients with a tracheostomy
Kerrie Curtis - Stop the clot! Evidence based patency management for central venous access devices
Rae Blades - Cost-effectiveness and radiation dermatitis: A NUM's approach
Concurrent Session 16: Care in the rural and regional setting
Carmel O'Kane - Supportive survivorship care for cancer survivors - improved health outcomes in rural communities
Angela Mellerick - Symptom and Urgent review clinic pilot across Metropolitan Melbourne
Molly Colussa - Support for regional cancer patients: implementing a Regional Wig Service for Victorians affected by hair loss
Tanya Haynes - Collaborative Care Approach - providing rural sarcoma patients with optimal and treatment specific care closer to their homes - presentation not available for publication
Danielle Roscoe - Implementing a Symptom and Urgent Review Clinic to enhance oncology in a regional health setting - presentation publication pending
Jane Phillips - Exploring cancer and palliative care nurses' experiences of caring for Chinese migrants with cancer pain: a cross sectional survey
'I did it my way!' An interactive panel session on Voluntary Assisted Dying
This session was an interactive panel style session, facilitated by Professor Mei Krishnasamy. Panel members include: Dr Juli Moran, Dr David Speakman, Jayne Hewitt and Michael Collins.