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VICS Optimal Care Summits prostate cancer consultation 2020

Statewide - Adult

The VICS’ second strategic consultation on prostate cancer care was held in 2020.

This consultation built on our first prostate cancer summit, in 2016. The summit event was held online, across 4 and 11 December 2020, and was well-attended by both clinicians and consumers. Following the summit, the advisory group below highlighted 4 priorities for immediate action:

Recommendations

  1. Increase the proportion of patients accessing appropriate information and support at diagnosis through existing services and resources
  2. Increase the proportion of patients discussed at a multi-disciplinary team meeting (MDM) or managed and documented by an agreed pathway that is overseen by the multidisciplinary team, to achieve the target participation rate of 85%
  3. Further investigate the factors contributing to variation in access to robotic surgery for lower socio-economic index populations, and develop business cases using local data to demonstrate the cost and patient outcome benefits for public health services
  4. To achieve the 80% target for supportive care screening for people with prostate cancer:
    – Respond better to patients who actively seek help
    – Identify key points in the care pathway when patients could be screened for supportive care needs.

Summit records

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Program overview
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Expert advisory group

  • Prof. Jeremy Millar (Co-chair) – Radiation Oncologist,  Alfred Health; Principal Investigator, Prostate Cancer Registry Victoria; Executive Chair Clinical Networks, Cancer Council Victoria
  • Prof. Damien Bolton (Co-chair) – Urologist, Austin Health
  • Gay Corbett – Prostate cancer specialist nurse, Ballarat Health Service
  • Mr Adee Davidson – Urologist, St John of God Warrnambool Hospital
  • Prof. Ian Davis – Medical oncologist, Eastern Health
  • A/Prof. Sue Evans – Director, Victorian Cancer Registry
  • Mr Adam Landau – Urological surgeon, Eastern Health, Epworth Healthcare and Cabrini Health
  • Mr Jonathon Lewin – Urologist, UroSurgical
  • A/Prof. Paul Mitchell – Medical oncologist, Austin Health
  • A/Prof. Declan Murphy – Urologist and Director of Genitourinary Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
  • Dr Nathan Papa – Academic Lead, Head Prostate Cancer Research, Prostate Cancer Outcomes Registry
  • Dr David Pook – Medical oncologist, Cabrini Health and Monash Medical Centre
  • Dr Neetu Tejani – Radiation Oncologist, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.