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Title: Optimising supportive care in Immuno-Oncology (I-O)
Time: 7.15pm - 9.45pm, please note - a two course meal with beverages will be served.
Date: Sunday 14 June 2015 (immediately after the CNSA Welcome Reception)
Venue: River View Room 5 - Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre
Speakers:
Professor Michael Millward
Winthrop Professor
Cancer Council Professor of Clinical Cancer Research
University of WA
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
Julie Teraci
Clinical Nurse Consultant,
Coordinator, Western Australian Melanoma Advisory Service
Chair and facilitator:
Dr Donna Milne RN, PhD
Nurse Coordinator: Skin and Melanoma Service
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Description:
Cancer nurses play an important supporting role in managing patients treated with IO agents. VOYCE Nurse is a clinical support network and educational program designed to assist nurses in educating and supporting their patients with advanced metastatic melanoma.
The VOYCE Nurse dinner meeting will feature a discussion about the mechanism of action of IO agents including how these therapies differ from chemotherapy agents as well as case studies from a nursing perspective about the management of patients with advanced melanoma.
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