Southern Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service

Care Plus is a new care model, supported by SMICS, that provides early palliative care to patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

A pilot of the Colorectal Cancer Partnered Survivorship Care Plan, which guides early-stage CRC survivors as they transition from active treatment to surveillance care, is underway at Monash Health.

SMICS and NEMICS engaged key stakeholders to adopt the ‘International consensus on definition and criteria of borderline resectable pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma 2017′.

Aboriginal health and liaison workers and cancer nurse educators co-developed a learning package on delivering culturally competent cancer services.

SMICS supported local initiatives to reduce variations in care as identified from the Brain Cancer Victorian Tumour Summit (VTS) held October 2020.

Information on care planning for patients with a new or suspected diagnosis of cancer.

This toolkit helps to identify and address existing barriers, examples of existing geriatric oncology services, and key resources to support staff education, patients and carers.