COSA's 48th Annual Scientific Meeting Cancer Care and Research: Learning from the Past and Improving the Future

ABSTRACT

The proceedings contain 333 papers. The topics discussed include leveraging opportunities of the pandemic optimal cancer care during and beyond COVID-19;the promise of personalized patient care. from why to how;developing a quality framework for the delivery of immunotherapy;capturing experience of care to inform system and service redesign;using routine patient-reported data to innovate services for people affected by brain cancer;co-designing for patient centered care - examples from practice;what do patients need from a patient organization?!;lung cancer screening ? are we there yet? policy perspective;the evidence behind lung cancer screening;the real risk of lung cancer screening is failure to operate;?user-friendly, highly implementable with rigorous adherence to a clinical pathway? feasibility of lung cancer screening implementation and rollout in Australia;global advances in prehabilitation;risk stratification and multimodal prehabilitation for modifiable risk to improve surgical outcomes;and multidisciplinary prehab in action an exercise, nutrition and psychology perspective.