COSA 2014*
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Breakfast session - Implementation of scalp cooling for prevention of chemotherapy induced alopecia
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Breakfast session - Wellness models in the acute cancer setting
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Opening ceremony
Plenary - Challenges in managing oligometastatic disease
Chair: Sandro Porceddu
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Morning Tea and Poster Viewing
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Concurrent session - Current evidence in the management of secondary disease
Chair: Belinda A. Campbell
Concurrent session - Pharmacotherapies
Chair: Gail Rowan
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Concurrent session - Cancer surveillance
Chair: Lara Lipton
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Concurrent session - Prehabilitation & rehabilitation
Best of the Best Orals - Basic & translational
Chair: Nikolajs Zeps
Discussant: Peter Watson
Discussant: Peter Watson
Best of the Best Orals - Lung cancer
Chair: Nick Pavlakis
Discussant: Thomas Lynch
Discussant: Thomas Lynch
Lunch
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COSA Cancer Pharmacists Group AGM
COSA Clinical Trials and Research Professionals Group AGM
COSA Geriatric Oncology Group AGM
COSA Psycho-oncology Group AGM
COSA Complementary & Integrative Therapies Group AGM
Plenary - Care of cancer survivors; what works?
Chair: Michael Jefford
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Afternoon tea
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Best of the Best Poster discussion A - Clinical research, services and education
Chair: Anna Boltong
Best of the Best Poster discussion B - Researching cancer treatments
Chair: Matthew Links
Discussant: Sumitra Thongprasert
Discussant: Sumitra Thongprasert
Poster discussion 1
Chairs: Anna Boltong & Thomas Jagoe
Concurrent session - Integrative cancer management
Chair: Carrie Lethborg
Concurrent session - Late effects
Chair: Haryana Dhillon
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Concurrent session - Metastases/recurrence
Chair: Erik (Rik) Thompson
Submitted symposia - Cancer inflammation
Chair: Stephen Clarke
Best of the Best Orals - Survivorship
Chair: David Goldstein
Discussant: Mary McCabe
Discussant: Mary McCabe
Best of the Best Orals - Health services
Chair: Christine Carrington
Discussant: Eng-Siew Koh
Discussant: Eng-Siew Koh
Welcome function and Luminous awards
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Dinner Symposium - Bespoke checks - An update on immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy
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COSA Breakfast session - Cancer Specific Advance Care Planning - Considering challenges and opportunities
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COSA Breakfast session - Nursing and Cancer Survivorship: A Perfect Match
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Breakfast session - PoCoG Early Career Mentoring Breakfast
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Breakfast session - VOYCE (YERVOY Clinical Network): supporting medical oncologists and nurses in managing patients on YERVOY treatment
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Plenary - Recent improvements in lung cancer care; what you must know
Chair: Matthew Peters
Morning Tea and Poster Viewing
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Concurrent Session - The best ways of controlling lung cancer
Chair: Ian Olver AM
Concurrent session - Emerging technologies
Chair: Robin Anderson
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Concurrent Session - Symptom management in lung cancer
Submitted symposia - Online psychological interventions to improve cancer care
Chair: Addie Wootten
Best of the Best Orals - Clinical
Chair: Ian Davis
Discussant: Normand Laperriere
Discussant: Normand Laperriere
Best of the Best Orals - Education
Chair: Alan Coates
Discussant: Donna Milne
Discussant: Donna Milne
Lunch
COSA AGM
Plenary - What factors influence patient outcomes?
Chair: Mei Krishnasamy
Afternoon tea
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Best of the Best Poster discussion A - Epidemiology and Health services
Chair: Dianne O'Connell
Discussant: Paul Katris
Discussant: Paul Katris
Best of the Best Poster discussion B - Supporting Indigenous and poor prognosis cancer patients
Chair: Patsy Yates
Discussant: Jane Turner
Discussant: Jane Turner
Poster discussion 2
Concurrent session - The lung cancer MDT
Chair: Shane White
Concurrent session - Mesothelioma
Chair: Nico Van Zandwijk
Concurrent session - Nutrition
Chair: Anna Boltong
Submitted symposia - Contemporary issues in evidence based integrative oncology
Chair: Paul Katris
Best of the Best Orals - Epidemiology
Chair: David Ellis
Best of the Best Orals - Supportive care
Chair: Mei Krishnasamy
Discussant: Julia Downing
Discussant: Julia Downing
COSA Survivorship Group AGM
Conference dinner
Breakfast session - Connecting, communicating & collaborating to reduce inequalities in cancer care for Indigenous people
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Breakfast session - Optimising oral chemotherapy options in metastatic breast cancer
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Breakfast session - New Frontiers in PET/CT and NET
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COSA/WCC joint plenary - Sustainable health systems
Chairs: Sanchia Aranda & Mei Krishnasamy
Morning Tea
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COSA/WCC joint concurrent session - The financial morbidity of cancer care
Concurrent session - Cancer clinical trials
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Concurrent session - Cancer services in developing nations
Chair: Zoe Wainer
Submitted symposia - Radiation therapy(proposed by the Faculty of Radiation Oncology (RANZCR)
Chair: Sandro Porceddu
Submitted symposia - Developing and implementing cancer policy in Australia
Lunch
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COSA Presidential Lecture
COSA/WCC joint hot topic - Is the cost of cancer treatment worth the benefits?
Chair: Adam Spencer