MCCC Cancer Research Seminars

Wednesday 15th September

Location: Room G19 Ground floor, Building 75, Clayton campus.

Session A: 5.30 – 6.30pm

Palliative Care, Supportive Care & Survivorship Research
Chair: Prof Susan Davis Director of Women’s Health, The Alfred

Dr Susan Burney , Head of Cabrini Monash Psycho-oncology Research Unit
“Screening for Distress in Chemotherapy Patients”

Assoc Prof Robin Bell , Deputy Director, Women’s Health Program, Dept of Medicine
“The BUPA Health Foundation Health & Wellbeing After Breast Cancer Study”

Prof Margaret O’Connor , Vivian Bullwinkel Chair in Palliative Care Nursing,
“Dying is Everybody’s Business—The Importance of Palliative Care Research”

Session B: 6.30 – 7.15pm

Melanoma Research
Chair: Assoc Prof John Kelly, Head of Victorian Melanoma Service , Alfred Health

Dr Andrew Haydon, Medical Oncologist, Alfred Health
“Recent Advances in the Systematic Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma ”

Assoc Prof John Kelly , Head of Victorian Melanoma Service, Alfred Health
“Primary melanoma research at the Victorian Melanoma Service: Aggressive and atypical melanomas that cause the majority of mortality “

Refreshments and savouries: available from 7.15pm - 7.45pm

To RSVP or for more information, contact debbie.brereton@monash.edu