BMS Educational Dinner

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.