WA Clinical Oncology Group
The WA Clinical Oncology Group (WACOG) was formed in 1997 to advise the Cancer Council WA on all clinical aspects of cancer. WACOG also aims to promote and facilitate cooperative studies on cancer.
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CANCERmatters newsletter
The May 2011 issue of CANCERmatters is now available. To view or download a copy, please visit the CANCERmatters page. The next issue will be available in August 2011. If you wish to sign up to the distribution list or to contribute content, please email wacog@cancerwa.asn.au or call (08) 9212 4333.
Calendar of events
WACOG holds education seminars which are open to all health professionals. Many of these seminars are run in conjunction with the WA Cancer and Palliative Care Network and the Tumour Collaboratives. Current events will be listed here as they occur.
Clinical Trials
Clinical trials are designed to show how certain treatments affect the people who recieve them. They are an essential step in the development of new and better treatments for cancer. Many people from all over the world have been involved in clinical trials which have found safer and more effect treatments for many cancers.
Cancer Council WA, WACOG and the Health department of WA support clinical trials of promising new cancer treatments, as there is strong evidence to suggest that patients on a clinical trial do better than those who do not join a trial. We are also encouraged by progrssive improvements in cancer cure rates that would have not happened without clinical trials.
For information for patients on clinicals trials, please visit the Clinical Trials page.
