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.
CANCERmatters newsletter
The December 2009 issue of CANCERmatters is now available. To view or download a copy, please visit the CANCERmatters page. The next issue will be available in early April 2010. 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 Palliaitve Care Network and the Tumour Collaboratives.
The following Health Professional Seminars are scheduled for 2010:
Thurs 11 Feb 2010 at 6-7pm, Level 3, St John of God Hospital Function Room, 25 McCourt Street, Subiaco : Existential Conversations within a Couples and Cancer Framework presented by Karen Anderson - Counsellor, Psychotherapist & Family Therapist and Greg Chidlow - Counselling Psychologist
Monday 15 Feb 2010 at 6-7pm, Mary Lockett Lecture Theatre, P Block, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands : Serrated Neoplasia as a Familial Colorectal Cancer Syndrome presented by Associate Professor Joanne Young - QUIMR Familial Cancer Laboratory
RSVP: Wacog@cancerwa.asn.au or fax 9212 4398 or ph 9212 4375
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.
