Registration desk opens

7:00AM - 5:30PM

Foyer

Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Cancer pain management guidelines

7:00AM - 8:20AM

Hall D

COSA Breakfast Session: e-tools for geriatric assessment with Janine Overcash

7:00AM - 8:20AM

Meeting Room 1&2

Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Oral chemotherapy: Improving quality of life for advanced cancer patients

7:00AM - 8:20AM

Meeting room 10&11

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Official Welcome and Opening

8:30AM - 9:00AM

Hall E

Chair: Sandro Porceddu

Plenary: The burden of cancer in the elderly

9:00AM - 10:30AM

Hall E

Chair: Robert Prowse
Facilitator: Dorothy Keefe

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Morning tea and Poster viewing

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Hall H - exhibition

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Practice pearls: What is different when dealing with the older patient

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall E

Chair: Jonathon Hogan-Doran

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Exercise and cancer

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall C

Chair: James Dollman

How do we support the delivery of quality cancer care? Building bridges between coal face delivery, service providers, management and government

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall D

Panel Chair: Tim Shaw

Cancer 2015 – Cross-disciplinary research of a genomic cancer cohort

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Meeting Room 1&2

Chair: John Parisot

Best of the Best Orals: Basic and Translational

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Meeting room 10&11

Chair: John Zalcberg
Discussant: Bas Wijnhoven

Lunch

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Hall H - exhibition

Plenary: Evidence based cancer management in older patients

1:30PM - 3:00PM

Hall E

Afternoon tea, Best of the Best Posters and Poster viewing

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

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Posters - Basic and Translational

Basic and Translational Research

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Clinical research

Clinical Research

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Education

Education

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Health services

Health Services

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Best of the Best Posters: Health services

3:15PM - 3:45PM

Theatrette 1 - Hall H

Chairs: Eng-Siew Koh & Gillian Mitchell

Best of the Best Posters: Researching cancer treatments

3:15PM - 3:45PM

Theatrette 2 - Hall H

Chair: Ian Davis

Medicine matters in the older cancer patient

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Hall E

Chair: Ben Stevenson

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Where to care?

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Hall C

Chair: Marion Eckert

Advances in nutrition and cancer

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Hall D

Managing the knowledge base for oncology

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Meeting Room 1&2

Chair: Jennifer Tieman

Best of the Best Orals: Clinical research

Clinical Research

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Meeting room 5

Chairs: Alan Coates & Vanessa Blair

Best of the Best Orals: Gastro-intestinal cancers

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Meeting room 10&11

Chairs: Eva Segelov & Rebecca Wong

Welcome Function and Luminous Awards

5:30PM - 7:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

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Sponsor Dinner Symposium: Advanced energy

7:00PM - 9:30PM

Hall D

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Sponsor Dinner Symposium: Changing paradigms in advanced prostate cancer

7:00PM - 9:30PM

Meeting Room 1&2

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Sponsor Dinner Symposium: Immunotherapy in melanoma - a new age of immune activation

7:00PM - 9:30PM

Meeting room 10&11

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Registration desk opens

7:00AM - 5:30PM

Foyer

COSA Breakfast Session: Guidelines on pre-exercise screening and exercise prescription in the oncology setting workshop with Lee Jones

7:00AM - 8:45AM

Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: "VOYCE" breakfast meeting

7:00AM - 8:45AM

Meeting Room 1&2

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Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Handling hazardous drugs, safety with savings

7:00AM - 8:45AM

Meeting room 10&11

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Plenary: The changing face of oesophageal cancer: Moving towards individualised care

9:00AM - 10:30AM

Hall E

Chair: Tim Bright

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Morning tea and Poster viewing

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Hall H - exhibition

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Recent advances in the management of upper gastro-intestinal cancer treatment

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall E

Chair: David Watson

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Cognition: Ageing and treatment

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall C

Chair: Haryana Dhillon

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Familial gastric cancer: Management challenges

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall D

Chair: Nicola Poplawski

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Best of the Best Orals: Epidemiology

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Meeting Room 1&2

Chairs: Claire Vajdic & Desmond Yip

Best of the Best Orals: Education

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Meeting room 10&11

Chairs: Mei Krishnasamy & Paul Katris

Lunch

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Hall H - exhibition

COSA members Annual General Meeting

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Hall C

Plenary - Managing hepatobillary and pancreatic cancers: Challenging cases

1:30PM - 3:00PM

Hall E

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Afternoon tea, Best of the Best Posters and Poster viewing

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

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Posters - Epidemiology

Epidemiology

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Supportive care

Supportive Care

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Gastro-intestinal cancers

GI Cancers

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Geriatric oncology

Geriatric Oncology

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Service provision

Service Provision (poster only)

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Posters - Trials in progress

Trials in Progress (poster only)

3:00PM - 4:00PM

Hall H - exhibition

Best of the Best Posters: Supporting cancer patients

3:15PM - 3:45PM

Theatrette 1 - Hall H

Chairs: Patsy Yates & Lee Jones

Best of the Best Posters: Cancer side effects and symptoms

3:15PM - 3:45PM

Theatrette 2 - Hall H

Chairs: Christine Carrington & Fran Boyle

Breast cancer and genetic testing -clinical practice points

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Hall E

Chair: Graeme Suthers

Fine wine: The old and the new in prostate cancer

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Hall C

Chair: Ian Davis

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Outcomes versus access, who is most vulnerable? A ‘wicked’ issue for cancer surgery in Australia

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Hall D

Chair: Bruce Barraclough

Best of the Best Orals: Geriatric oncology

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Meeting Room 1&2

Chairs: Christopher Steer & Harvey Cohen

Best of the Best Orals: Supportive care

4:00PM - 5:30PM

Meeting room 10&11

Chairs: Phyllis Butow & Patricia Ganz

Evening meetings

5:30PM - 6:30PM

COSA Conference Dinner

5:30PM - 9:30PM

Hall F&G

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Registration desk opens

7:00AM - 2:00PM

Foyer

Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: New treatment paradigms in the management of mCRC

7:00AM - 8:45AM

Hall D

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Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Optimising treatment for BRAF mutation positive metastatic melanoma patients

7:00AM - 8:45AM

Meeting Room 1&2

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Sponsor Breakfast Symposium: Implementation of the National Cancer Workforce Strategic Framework (NCWSF)

7:00AM - 8:45AM

Meeting room 10&11

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Plenary: Conundrums in colorectal cancer

9:00AM - 10:30AM

Hall E

Chair: Eva Segelov

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Morning tea

10:30AM - 11:00AM

Hall H - exhibition

Let's talk about sex

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall E

Chair: Bogda Koczwara

Colorectal cancer in the elderly

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall C

Chair: Timothy Price

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Palliative care - therapeutic interventions and models of care

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Hall D

Chair: Tim To

Cancer care in the context of comorbidity

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Meeting Room 1&2

Chair: Diana Sarfati

Best of the Best Orals: Health services

11:00AM - 12:30PM

Meeting room 10&11

Chairs: Matthew Links & Ian Chau

Lunch

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Hall H - exhibition

COSA Presidential Lecture

1:30PM - 2:30PM

Hall E

Chair: Sandro Porceddu

Hot Topic Debate - The older you are the less you get

2:30PM - 3:45PM

Hall E

Moderator: Stephen Ackland

Conference close

3:45PM - 4:00PM

Hall E