Cancer Survivors Centre.

New website

A new website is currently being developed for the Cancer Survivors Centre. For further information, please contact Roshana Sultan, roshana@unsw.edu.au, (02) 9385 1390.

Why a Cancer Survivors Centre?

A growing body of research has identified the unique and largely unmet physical, emotional and practical needs of cancer survivors. Yet, Australia does not have a national cancer survivorship plan or any comprehensive cancer survivorship centres. There is an urgent need for research to understand the risk factors for, and biological basis of, the health problems of cancer survivors.
The NSW Cancer Survivors Centre brings together researchers and care providers to combine their expertise, to coordinate efforts to identify and meet the needs of cancer survivors, and to increase research focused on survivorship issues – so that we can prevent, or at least better manage, complications and improve outcomes.

Expert Leadership

The Centre has been established by a consortium of leading clinical and research groups affiliated with the University of New South Wales and based at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney Children’s Hospital and Royal Hospital for Women. It is a collaboration with the Lifestyle Clinic, a leader in clinical services and research in exercise and lifestyle therapies for people with chronic disease, and will develop in partnership with the Childhood Cancer Long-term Follow-up Clinic at the Sydney Children’s Hospital, the longest running survivorship program for adult survivors of childhood cancer in Australia. Additional UNSW teaching hospital collaborations have been established with St Vincent’s and Liverpool Hospitals and further centres are envisaged to follow.
Our Executive and Advisory Committees include leading specialists and researchers from a wide range of disciplines including medical oncology, radiation oncology, exercise physiology, immunology, nursing, psychology, behavioural science, neurology, genetics, fertility, obstetrics and gynaecology and paediatrics. The Centre already has developed links with the Cancer Council NSW and the Clinical Oncological Society of Australia (COSA). Click here for more information on the NSW Cancer Survivors Centre.

Click here for the Exercise & Lifestyle Therapies for Cancer brochure.