Resources and links for health professionals

This guide indicates steps to be taken in investigating symptoms that could be breast cancer, and provides information about the triple test approach to diagnosis.

This resource contains a set of recommendations and practice points for the management and care of early stage breast cancer.

These guidelines aim to provide information and recommendations to guide practice across the continuum of cancer care including colorectal cancer prevention, screening and diagnosis, clinical aspects of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, follow-up and psychosocial care. The guidelines also provide an evidence base for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

These Guidelines are an update (and a substantial expansion) of several small sections of the 2005. Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Prevention, Early Detection and Management of Colorectal Cancer.

Family history of bowel cancer can be used to estimate the risk of bowel cancer. This may help to determine the type and frequency of bowel cancer screening.

Practical tools and tips to help increase participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.

Find Cancer Early aims to promote earlier detection and diagnosis of five of the most common cancers in regional Western Australia: colorectal, lung, prostate, skin, and breast. The Find Cancer Early project offers cancer education resources for regional General Practice.

These new guidelines offer guidance to health professionals and women as to best practice in the clinical management of women with positive oncogenic HPV test results and abnormalities detected on subsequent LBC.

Genetic fact sheets provided by the NSW Government

Cancer genetics information and resources for health professionals and patients

A guide covering familial aspects of both breast and epithelial ovarian cancer.

Familial Risk Assessment – Breast and Ovarian Cancer (FRA-BOC) is an on-line tool designed for use by health professionals such as general practitioners and nurses.

An introduction to the role of genetics in cancer diagnosis.

A step-by-step care guide that will allow WA GP's to diagnose and manage Hepatitis B patients in accordance to national clinical guidelines.

Fact sheet for health professionals outlining decision making in HCV

Fact sheet covering hepatocellular carcinoma and hepatitis B

This resource card aims to provide information and support to patients and general practitioners when discussing diagnostic imaging tests. Ideally, this discussion should be informed by and consistent with the appropriate clinical practice guidelines.

The Diagnostic Imaging Pathways website is an evidence-based and consensus-based education and decision support tool for clinicians. It guides the choice of the most appropriate diagnostic examinations in the correct sequence in a wide range of clinical scenarios.

Guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.

This guide has been developed to assist all health professionals to investigate symptomatic lung cancer and support their early and rapid referral into the diagnostic pathway .

The information in this guide is intended to assist general practitioners assess if a woman with persistent, unexplained symptoms may have ovarian cancer. The guide is based on the Clinical practice guidelines for the management of women with epithelial ovarian cancer.

The National Cancer Prevention Policy makes specific recommendations for national action by governments and non-government organisations, including programs and strategies to reduce the incidence of specific preventable cancer types. (It does not provide information about cancer prevention for individuals).

The document provides healthcare professionals with information designed to guide the provision of psychosocial clinical care relating to the domain of suffering for improved patient outcomes and support for families and carers.

This guideline includes statements and recommendations based on available evidence about the identification of fear of cancer recurrence, and support for adult cancer survivors experiencing it. The guideline provides health professionals with information designed to assist in making management recommendations and providing care for improved patient outcomes.

Guidelines for the PSA testing and management of prostate cancer.

This card provides an overview of types of skin cancer, diagnosis and treatment options.

A fact sheet on skin cancer for patients.

A clinical summary guide on the management of testicular cancer developed by Andrology Australia to assist health professionals in the management of their male patients.