Cancer Council Update
Each year Cancer Council WA holds the Cancer Council Update, which takes place during the 5 weeks leading up to Daffodil Day (27 August).
The aim of the Cancer Council Update is to make the latest cancer information and research accessible to the WA community.
Cancer Council Update activities include:
- FREE public lecture series - audio of each presentation will be available from the 720 ABC Perth website following the lecture or download a CD order form (pdf 41kb)
- professional education sessions
- extensive media coverage
2010 Cancer Council Update
Please see below for this year's topics and presenters.
- Monday 26 July
Asbestos - residential exposure, a potential timebomb (pdf, 693kb)
This presentation is available to listen to or download at the 720 ABC website.
Prof Peter Howat
Curtin University, WA
- Monday 2 August
Towards improving outcomes for adolescents and young adults with cancer (pdf 653kb)
This presentation is available to listen to or download at the 720 ABC website.
Mr Shaun Mays
CanTeen, WA
- Monday 9 August
Who owns your genes?
This presentation is available to listen to or download at the 720 ABC website. There were no presentation slides for this lecture
Dr Graeme Suthers
South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, SA
- Monday 16 August
Hope, optimism and empowerment after a cancer diagnosis (pdf 452kb)
Assoc Prof Penny Schofield
Peter McCallum Cancer Centre,VIC
- Monday 23 August
Sexuality and intimacy after cancer (pdf 645kb)
Dr Kendra Sundquist
Cancer Council NSW
Download the 2010 Cancer Council Update program (pdf 36kb)
About the presenters
Professor Peter Howat is Director of the Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control at Curtin University. He has worked in public health in New Zealand, the United States and Australia for over 35 years, and has co-authored over 300 publications on public health issues. Peter is currently involved in several research projects in alcohol, obesity, nutrition, physical activity, tobacco, and community asbestos exposure.
Mr Shaun Mays is the Western Australian Manager of CanTeen - the Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer, and has been in this role for four and a half years. Shaun holds a Bachelors of Business and a first class honours degree in Social Work and has worked with at risk young people in the child protection, out of home care and health sectors for the last ten years, specialising in areas of youth participation and empowerment, and grief and loss, working with marginalised young people and program evaluation. Early next year he will begin his PhD in Social Work focusing on collaborative working models between Government and Not for Profit agencies in the Human Service sectors.
In promoting today's lecture we advertised that Dr Marianne Phillips, Senior Paediatric & Adolescent Oncologist and Palliative Care Specialist from Princess Margaret Hospital for Children would be our speaker. Unfortunately due to circumstances beyond our control Dr Phillips was unable to attend today.
Dr Graeme Suthers is currently Acting Head of the South Australian Clinical Genetics Service, program director of the State's Familial Cancer Service, senior visiting consultant in clinical genetics to a number of teaching hospitals in Adelaide, and a genetic pathologist in South Australia's public sector pathology service. He has been a member of a variety of local and national committees, including committees of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, the Human Genetics Society of Australasia, The Cancer Council Australia and the Medical Services Advisory Committee of the Federal Department of Health & Ageing, among many others.
Associate Professor Penny Schofield is a behavioural scientist. She is Deputy Director and an NHMRC Research Fellow with the Department of Nursing and Supportive Care. Her current research focus is quality of life and supportive care research in cancer. Most of her work employs randomised controlled trials to test psycho-educational interventions which are designed to be clinically feasible, sustainable and effective in improving outcomes for people affected by cancer.
Dr Kendra Sundquist is Manager of Supportive Care Development at Cancer Council NSW. She has considerable expertise in psychosocial care in cancer, and in sexual and reproductive health. As an educationalist for the past 20 years, she has trained thousands of nurses, doctors, and allied health workers in Australia, New Zealand and in developing countries, such as China, Vietnam and the South Pacific.
Kendra previously worked as Director of Education Services and Health Promotion at Family Planning NSW. She was one of the first HIV/AIDS policy analysts to be appointed by the NSW Health Department in the newly established AIDS Branch in the mid-eighties. She is a member of the NSW Medical Board (Ministerial appointment); Australian Medical Council Board; NSW Cancer Institute Education and Training Committee, NSW Health GMCT Gynae-Oncology Executive Committee, Clinical Oncological Society of Australia; and the College of Nursing NSW.
At the Cancer Council for the past 10 years, she has developed and delivered training programs and teaching resources for oncology health professionals and Aboriginal Health Workers. In her current role she works closely with psycho-oncology researchers from a number of tertiary institutions to develop specific educational interventions for cancer patients and survivors, and also manages the consumer publishing unit.
Previous Presentations
Presentations from previous year's public lecture series are available as downloads from the following links:
