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What’s new – July 2022

Links to support, information and other items from the cancer sector.

Australian Cancer Plan engagement hub

Cancer Australia logo with the Australian Government emblem

Cancer Australia has launched the new Australian Cancer Plan engagement hub – an easy-to-use interactive website to stay up to date with the development of the first Australian Cancer Plan. 

Visit the Australian Cancer Plan engagement hub or you can register to receive updates.

Study into CALD patient safety and engagement in cancer settings

Macquarie University logo

Are you from a culturally and linguistically diverse background and have had cancer treatment at Western Health or Austin Health?

Researchers from Macquarie University are seeking participants to take part in a 30-45 minute interview (face-to-face, online or via telephone).

This research aims to improve the engagement and safety of patients and families from different backgrounds accessing cancer services in New South Wales and Victoria. 

Download a flyer with information about how to take part in this study.

New National Pancreatic Cancer Roadmap

Yellow diamond shaped road sign with a black arrow.

The National Pancreatic Cancer Roadmap has been developed by Cancer Australia to improve outcomes and survival for Australians affected by pancreatic cancer. The Roadmap identifies 33 key priority areas and 60 strategies for collective action over the next five years to 2027.

Visit pancreaticroadmap.canceraustralia.gov.au

Breast cancer in young women Q&A event

Breast Cancer Trials logo

Join a free online Q&A event, moderated by author and journalist Annabel Crabb, on Wednesday 27 July from 5:30pm–7.00pm. Leading researchers and breast cancer experts will discuss breast cancer in young women. This event will be broadcast live from Federation Square as part of the Breast Cancer Trials 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting.

Register your interest or leave a question for the expert panel.

Survey: National Cervical Cancer Elimination Strategy

Eliminate cervical cancer in Australia by 2035!

The Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer have produced a Consultation Paper that summarises Australia’s progress towards cervical cancer elimination and asks for Australians’ ideas about how we can succeed in reaching global targets across the three elimination pillars: 

  1. HPV vaccination 
  2. Cervical screening and treatment of precancers 
  3. Cervical cancer treatment.  

They are inviting you help shape a National Cervical Elimination Strategy by completing an online survey. The survey is open until 29 July 2022 and takes about 5 minutes to complete. If you have lived experience with cervical cancer and are willing to complete an extended survey, it will take an additional 10 minutes.  

Access the survey, including the Easy Read accessible version.

Phone in a woman's hand showing the Counterpart Navigator homepage

If you have early breast cancer or any stage of gynaecological cancer, the Counterpart Navigator can help you find information. The Navigators link to a range of resources that health professionals and women with cancer have reviewed and found to be helpful and reliable. Topics also include questions to consider or ask your treating team.

Visit the Counterpart Navigator website, or download the free app.

Counterpart expands to all women with cancer

Women supporting women with cancer – Counterpart expands to all women

30 June 2022

Every year 16,000 women in Victoria are told they have cancer. Many of these women will now have increased access to support, with Women’s Health Victoria’s cancer support service opening its doors to women with all cancer types.


‘Our vision is for every woman to live well – healthy, empowered, equal’, says Women’s Health Victoria CEO Dianne Hill. ‘Counterpart has been providing a quality peer support service to women with breast or a gynaecological cancer for almost 20 years. We are thrilled to be able to offer that same support to the 10,000 women diagnosed with other types of cancer each year’.

Counterpart supports women from diagnosis onwards, helping women find information and services, and providing peer support. Trained volunteers give other women with cancer the space to adjust to their diagnosis and provide the support and understanding that can only come from a lived experience. This support can make a huge difference to a woman’s experience of cancer.

Counterpart Peer Support Volunteer Margaret agrees. ‘I am passionate in supporting the extension of our service. As breast cancer is not my only cancer diagnosis, I can see the value of the support that Counterpart can provide to women with all types of cancer’, she says.

I think it is an issue of equity too, as it is very hard to deny a woman with another cancer type the wonderful service received by women with a breast or gynaecological cancer.

Margaret, Peer Support Volunteer, Counterpart

Manager Fiona McRae says that the Counterpart team has been working with other organisations and services that support different tumour streams, as well as women living with other cancer diagnoses to prepare for the expansion. ‘It is very important that we aren’t duplicating other services,’ she says. ‘We have heard from many women diagnosed with different cancers, that they really want to be able to talk with someone else who understands what it is like. We want to be able to provide that support, and also ensure that women know what other services are available that may help them in what can be really difficult times’.

Find out more about Counterpart’s peer support program and other services at counterpart.org.au.

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