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 February 2012 issue of CANCERmatters is now available. To view or download a copy, please visit the CANCERmatters page. 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.
FREE educational meeting for all interested WA health professionals
Palliative Care in General Practice
Making the GP the Cornerstone
Dr Douglas McGregor MD
Regional Medical Director, Palliative Care,
Vancouver Coastal Health, Canada
Wednesday 16 May 2012
See attached flyer for further details
Men's Health Community Seminar -
Just About You
Wednesday 13 June 2012 5.45-9.15pm
Boundary Room at the WACA, Hale Street, East Perth
TICKETS: $10.00 BOOKINGS ARE ESSENTIAL
PHONE: 9386 9777 EMAIL: healthprom@continencewa.org.au
See attached flyer for further details
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 Department of Health 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.
