2025 National Cancer Survivorship Conference

2025 National Cancer Survivorship Conference is organized by ASN Events, Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) and will be held from Mar 06 - 07, 2025 at Rydges Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Description:
With the theme ‘BUILDING CAPABILITY AND CAPACITY IN SURVIVORSHIP CARE AND RESEARCH’ we will highlight the importance of advancing survivorship care from the individual to the health system perspective.

Plenary sessions include:

• What is capability and capacity in survivorship and how to build it will explore capacity and capability at the individual and system level from patients and providers perspectives, with a focus on how we can build this, collectively.
• Building capacity at home will focus on patients and caregivers, and consider support in and outside of the ‘home’ including within community settings.
• Implementation and health system planning will look at implementation of survivor-centred, coordinated and accessible care that is acceptable, safe, effective and sustainable. 
• The basic science of cancer survivorship session will explore how our understanding of survivorship in the lab can improve outcomes for cancer survivors and care in the clinic.
• Global survivorship will consider Australia’s role in the global survivorship community with focus on how global partnerships can be harnessed for the greater good of survivors.  
• And the increasingly important topic of metastatic cancer survivorship will be discussed as an exemplar of effective advocacy which has expanded the focus of cancer survivorship, and how this enhanced focus should translate to improved care and outcomes.