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Our first consultation on variations in hepatocellular carcinoma care in Victoria will be held in late 2025.
Our 2nd consultation on variations in head and neck cancer care in Victoria will be held in early/mid-2025
Our 3rd strategic consultation on variations in colorectal cancer care will run from late 2024 to early 2025.
The first Breast Cancer Summit of the VICS Optimal Care Summits program was held online on 23 July 2021.
Our second prostate cancer summit was held online on 4 and 11 December 2020, building on the first prostate summit in 2016.
Our online brain cancer summit in October 2020 attracted 80 active participants and 35 observers, from a variety of disciplines and organisations across Victoria.
The second VICS lung cancer summit, in February 2018, reviewed changes in patterns of care for lung cancer in Victoria since our first lung cancer summit in 2014.
Our head and neck cancer summit on 12 October 2018 attracted 101 participants from across Victoria.
Our second colorectal cancer consultation took place in 2017–18. The summit event on 16 March 2018 attracted more than 60 attendees, from a range of professional disciplines.
Our first pancreatic cancer consultation was held in 2017, leading up to a summit event on 24 November 2017 with 70 multidisciplinary stakeholders from across Victoria.
Eighty multidisciplinary professionals involved in oesophagogastric cancer care across Victoria gathered on 26 August 2016 to review variations in care and outcomes.
Our first prostate cancer summit was held on 25 May 2016, involving 71 clinical, government, and not-for profit sector participants.
Our first lung cancer summit, in November 2014, brought together 60 multidisciplinary clinicians providing care to lung cancer patients across Victoria.
The first colorectal cancer consultation in the VICS Optimal Care Summits program took place in September 2014, with more than 60 participants.
Our 2nd consultation on variations in OG cancer care and outcomes analysed new data and efforts to improve equity of care since the 2016 consultation on the same topic.
The Melanoma 2022 summit, co-chaired by A/Profs Phil Parente and Victoria Mar, was held Friday 14 October with 83 active participants.
The second pancreatic cancer consultation of the VICS Optimal Care Summits program, on 26 August 2022, was held online due to COVID considerations.
BSWRICS led a statewide scoping project to understand current practices re palliative care referral and advance care planning in Victoria.
