BREAKFAST SESSIONS
Breakfast sessions are included in your conference registration. As spaces are limited, please remember to RSVP.
Please click on the plus (+) button next to each breakfast session title for more information.
Advancing and Powering Practice Change: The Launch of the COSA Malnutrition and Sarcopenia Implementation Toolkit
Date: Wednesday 11 November
Time: 7:00am to 8:15am
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Join us for an interactive breakfast symposium marking the launch of Stage 2 of the COSA Cancer-Related Malnutrition and Sarcopenia Implementation Toolkit, now freely accessible via a newly developed website.
This session will highlight the breadth of new and practical resources available within the updated toolkit, designed to support clinicians, researchers, and health services in delivering evidence-based care. Attendees will gain valuable insights from real-world examples of how key components of the toolkit are being successfully implemented across diverse clinical settings.
The program will also feature an expert panel discussion exploring tips and tricks for clinicians and researchers plus emerging priorities in the management of cancer-related malnutrition and sarcopenia.
Through an engaging and interactive format, participants will leave with a clear understanding of how to apply toolkit resources to enhance clinical practice, drive service improvement, and strengthen research initiatives in cancer care.
This breakfast session is brought to you by the COSA Nutrition Group in collaboration with industry partner Abbott Australasia
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This session will include:
Launch and showcase of Stage 2 of the COSA Cancer-Related Malnutrition and Sarcopenia Toolkit
Practical and real-world examples from clinicians and researchers highlighting the Toolkit in action (both in-person and recorded experiences)
Interactive panel discussion with a range of nutrition and exercise experts and users of the Toolkit
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Jenelle Loeliger, COSA Nutrition Group Executive Chair, Manager, Nutrition & Speech Pathology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, VIC
A/Prof Merran Findlay, COSA Nutrition Group Executive member, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW, NSW
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TBC
Measuring What Matters: Implementing PROMs and PREMs Using the National Core Outcome Set
Date: Thursday 12 November
Time: 7:30am to 8:45am
Sponsored by
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This session will present the outcomes of a national initiative to define and implement a Core Outcome Set (COS) to cancer care in Australia, and provide practical guidance for integrating patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) into routine clinical practice.
Developed through extensive engagement with clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and people with lived experience of cancer, the COS established a nationally agreed set of outcomes and experiences that should be consistently measured across cancer types. Building on this, a comprehensive mapping of existing PROMs and PREMs to the COS has been undertaken, identifying areas of alignment, gaps, and recommended measures to support implementation.
The session will focus on translating this work into practice. Attendees will be introduced to practical pathways for aligning existing PROMs and PREMs with the COS, and to implementation supports designed to assist services at different stages of maturity.
Through presentations and a panel discussion, this session will explore what this means for clinicians and services, and how the COS can be used to support more consistent, patient-centred, and outcomes-focused cancer care across Australia.
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The need for consistent, patient-centred outcome measurement in cancer care.
Development of a national Core Outcome Set
Mapping existing PROMs and PREMs to the COS
Practical pathways to implementation
Implementation supports and tools
Next steps for services and clinicians
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Sarah Weller, Movember, Global Director of Prostate Cancer
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Huw Rees; Movember; Program Manager, Pan Cancer Initiative
Adam Lambert; Cancer Australia; Head, Evidence, Priority Initiatives, and Communication
Further speakers to be announced soon
Australian Cancer Nursing and Navigation Program (ACNNP) - Connected Supportive Care in Practice
Date: Friday 13 November
Time: 7:30am to 8:45am
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This session will open with a consumer perspective of the challenges navigating the health system following a cancer diagnosis and how a wrap around approach to supportive care, like the ACNNP, can support the wellbeing of people impacted by cancer.
The ACNNP will be brought to life through a realistic patient-centred case study, demonstrating integrated supportive care cancer in practice across the cancer pathway. Presenters will illustrate how the sector comes together to provide tailored care at different points in the cancer continuum, depending on individual need.
Building on discussions from the 2025 COSA breakfast Session, this presentation responds directly to feedback from clinicians, consumers and the broader sector, seeking a clearer understanding of the Program including how the components connect to support people impacted by cancer. The presentation will also highlight how Program supports work with treating teams to deliver holistic, person-centred cancer care.
Attendees will gain a better understanding of what supports are available under the Program and how they can be accessed by both consumers and health professionals.
The session will conclude with an interactive Q&A.
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Overview of the ACNNP.
A person-centred case study demonstrating how ACNNP partners work together to provide personalised, coordinated support alongside clinical care.
Practical referral pathways and consumer experience of the Program.
Interactive Q&A.
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Jo Mond, Assistant Secretary, Cancer and Palliative Care Branch, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
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Jo Mond – Assistant Secretary, Cancer and Palliative Care Branch, Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
Georgina Liew, Director of Engagement, National Cancer Navigation Service Project, Cancer Council Australia
Kate Steinhauer, Head of Cancer Hub
Kerry Patford, Chief Nurse, McGrath Foundation
Nadia Roisin, CEO, Head and Neck Cancer Australia
Consumer – Specifics TBD
Beyond the Script: Do health professionals have a role in improving access to new cancer treatments?
Date: Friday 13 November
Time: 7:30am to 8:45am
Sponsored by
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Every day, health professionals help cancer patients and their families navigate difficult treatment decisions. But what happens when the best treatment option isn't funded, available outside a clinical trial, or just simply out of reach?
These are some of the most challenging conversations in cancer care. Whether discussing emerging therapies available overseas, clinical trial opportunities or privately funded treatment options versus the currently available standard of care, health professionals are often balancing clinical evidence with the realities of access.
Our interactive breakfast symposium will explore these challenges and seek to answer an important question: what should be considered by government when assessing new cancer treatment options for public reimbursement?
Bringing together perspectives from a leading medical oncologist, a pharmaceutical industry health economist, a carer and the audience through live polling, we will discover whether Australia's current approach to assessing new cancer treatments for reimbursement reflects what health professionals, patients and carers experience.
Join us for a frank and engaging discussion about the realities of cancer care in the current access environment, and how health professionals can play a role in challenging how Australia values innovation in cancer care.
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Innovation in cancer treatment, what is considered when new medicines are evaluated for reimbursement and clinician, carer and industry perspectives on the current access environment.
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Simon Fifer, founding partner of CaPPRe and Director of Research and Innovation
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Oncologist [TBC]
Lived experience [TBC]
Rachel Anderson, Market Access Director, AstraZeneca