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.

Upcoming Events

Dry July 2012
The NSW CSC has been selected as a beneficiary of the 2012 Dry July campaign. Dry July is a non-profit organisation determined to improve the lives of adults living with cancer through an online social community giving up booze for the month of July. The campaign operates a full circle fundraising model, which gives participants clarity on how beneficiary funds are used within each hospital or centre. It is also a chance to raise awareness of individual drinking habits, the value of a balanced healthy lifestyle, a personal challenge, encourage positive change and an awareness of a healthy attitude to alcohol consumption. To find out more or to sign up for the challenge check out http://www.dryjuly.com and be sure to select the NSW CSC as your chosen charity!

City2Surf 2012
Jump The Queue For A Cause! The NSW CSC is featured as a Gold Charity in this year’s City2Surf. Not only will you be raising funds for a worthy cause but you will also get to line up in your own designated Gold Charity start group with unique gold bibs, behind the Sun-Herald (Red) group and in front of Green starters in Park Street. Please note, as places are limited, and runners are chosen on the strength of their commitment to fundraising. If chosen you need to secure your entry with a $250 deposit and raise a minimum of $750. For more information please visit http://www.city2surf.com.au/default.asp?PageID=21807 or contact Roshana Sultan on 02 9385 1390 or by email roshana@unsw.edu.au.

Ride for Life 2012
The Ride for Life (RFL) is on again this year with events on Sunday 19th August (Centennial Park Ride Day) and Friday 24th August (Parliament House Luncheon). The Ride Day is an established cycle event that has become the feature cycling event in NSW and has now raised in excess of $350,000 for the Prince of Wales Oncology Department, cancer programs of the Fatigue Clinic and UNSW Lifestyle Clinic. The day consists of a great variety of events intertwined to make for a great family and corporate day. Centennial Parklands represents the ideal location to stage cycling and through the support of the SES and volunteers (numbering more than 80 persons), we are able to provide a 2-kilometre race circuit closed to traffic and pedestrians and barricaded for the majority of the circuit.

The Parliament House lunch will be attended by Federal and State minister, with Glenn Wheeler acting as MC and guest speaker, Australian Paralympian Michael Milton. After losing his leg to bone cancer at the age of nine years, Michael’s achievements are astonishing for someone with
or without a disability. He has competed in five Winter Paralympic Games, netting an unprecedented 11 medals, including a record clean sweep of the alpine events at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

This year’s events will be run in partnership with the NSW CSC with all funds raised going directly to us. For more information about participating in the rides or attending the lunch, please contact Roshana Sultan on 02 9385 1390 or by email roshana@unsw.edu.au.

Cycle Challenge 2012
The NSW CSC will be the beneficiary of this year’s Charity Cycle Challenge to Burma (Myanmar). The trip runs 20th October 2012 – 31st October 2012 and will include a 445km ride through this amazing country. To find out more please visit http://rawtravel.com/trip/premiership_quarter_bike_burma_challenge or contact Roshana Sultan on 02 9385 1390 or by email roshana@unsw.edu.au.

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