Wednesday, 12th November 2025 Joint Meeting of the COSA ASM and IPOS Congress

Welcome by COSA President & IPOS President
Welcome to Country by local Indigenous group

• Qualitative outcomes from a pilot First Nations cancer coordination program: perspectives of First Nations patients and families - Tanya Druce
• Evaluating the readability, understandability, and cultural appropriateness of online cancer resources for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples - Georgia KB Halkett
• Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in Cancer Survivorship: A 2-Year Longitudinal Database Study - Lawrence Kasherman
• Development and Evaluation of an LGBTIQ+ Inclusivity Toolkit for Cancer Care Professionals - Rosalie Power
• Rural variations in primary care prostate cancer diagnosis and survival: A cohort study using linked Australian Primary Care Electronic Medical Record data - Meena Rafiq
• Rare and Rural: how to increase equity in access to supportive cancer care for people with a rare cancer living rurally - Evelien Spelten

• ‘They made me feel like I was at home’: Experiences of psychosocial care in the Australian Youth Cancer Service - Kit Bibby
• Supporting Women with Adherence to Endocrine Therapy: HT&Me Intervention in Early Breast Cancer - Jo Brett
• “But no one knows” – Navigating the complexities of Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients. - Jessica Elliott
• How optimal is adolescent and young adult cancer care: an audit across an integrated cancer service network - Linda Nolte
• Adapting Fear of Recurrence Therapy (FORT) for Adolescent and Early Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer: Protocol and Preliminary Adaptation Findings - K. Brooke Russell
• Evaluating Two Psycho-Oncological Interventions in the Context of Maternal Breast Cancer: Adolescents’ and their Parents’ Perspectives and Experiences - Hanna Sejthen Sorknaes
• Tailoring the Response: Building Family Violence Capability in Oncology Settings through Training and Consultation - Natasha Sergent

• Sex and gender reporting in Australian cancer clinical trials: Are we doing enough? - Vikneswary Batumalai
• Loneliness among Women with Metastatic Breast Cancer and Its Relation to Well-being: The Moderating Role of Religiosity and Spirituality - Michal Braun
• Clinico-Psychosocial Factors Influencing Quality of Life Among Penile Cancer Survivors in South India: A Descriptive Cross-Sectional Study   - Vijay C
• A better normal; creation of gender inclusive side-effect specific resources, for oncosexual management - Tess Deveze (they/them)
• Development of a support group for women with gynecological cancers in Guam - Camarin G. Meno
• Sex differences in cancer incidence and survival: a Danish nationwide population-based study assessing 35 cancer sites - Fie Stegenborg
• Mental Health Status and Associated Factors Among Postoperative Breast Cancer Survivors in China: A Single-Center Cross-Sectional Study - Zhongge Su

• Evaluating a digital psycho-oncology intervention (Finding My Way-Advanced) for women with metastatic breast cancer: Outcomes from a national multisite RCT. - Lisa Beatty
• Effects of an eHealth Appstore for Dutch people directly affected by cancer - Anne M. de Korte
• Web-based cognitive rehabilitation for patients with aggressive lymphoma: a randomised pilot trial - Priscilla Gates
• Evaluating the impact of dosage and modality of guidance on digital psycho-oncology interventions engagement and outcomes: A systematic review. - Amy Rigg
• Effectiveness of a mobile app-based cognitive-behavioural intervention compared to standard psycho-oncological care during primary oncological treatment of Polish breast cancer patients: a prospective two-arm randomized trial - Anna Syska-Bielak
• Virtual Care Use and Unplanned Health Service Use Among Cancer Patients with comorbid mental health conditions. - Ramya Walsan

• Psychosocial care for patients with cancer in Japan: A SWOT analysis of the current landscape and future directions - Masako Okamura
• Psychosocial Services for Cancer Patients in Taiwan: A SWOT Analysis and Strategic Directions for Integration - Chihtao Cheng
• Psychosocial care for people living with a cancer diagnosis in Australia: A SWOT analysis of the current landscape and future directions - Haryana Dhillon
• SWOT Analysis and Experience Sharing on Psycho-social Support for Chinese Cancer Survivors - Xia Liu
• Psychosocial Care for Cancer Patients in India: A SWOT Analysis - Surendran Veeraiah
• Establishing and advancing psycho-oncology in Nepal: A SWOT analysis and exploring ways ahead - Rishav Dr. Koirala

12:05 PM Panel discussion

• A multi-perspective cross-sectional analysis of symptom burden and symptom clusters in childhood and adolescent cancer survivors in Australia. - Sarah J Ellis
• "Evaluating the Use of Genomic Sequencing in Advanced Cancers in Regional Australia: Experience from Gippsland" - Seshani Iddawela
• Veillonella parvula in platinum-resistant ovarian cancer: gut microbiota correlation and functional promotion of chemoresistance and cellular malignancy - Siyu Li
• Clinical proteome analysis identifies molecular signatures and diagnostic biomarkers between HER2-low and HER2-zero phenotypes in HR-negative breast cancer - Nan Shao
• A clinical quality dashboard to measure and address variation in lung cancer care - Shalini Vinod
• A machine learning model based on the “6 and 12 score” for predicting the prognostic effect of target-immunity combined with TACE in patients with intermediate- to advanced-stage hepatocellular carcinoma - Yanjie Zhang

COSA Group Meetings and IPOS SIGs Meetings

COSA Group Meetings and IPOS SIGs Meetings

• Nutrition and swallowing outcomes following transoral robotic surgery (TORS) +/- adjuvant treatment for head and neck cancer - Teresa Brown
• Scout placement at time of biopsy for impalpable BI-RADS 5 lesions: A person-centred, value-based approach to preoperative localisation - Grace Carpenter
• Changing patterns of care in incurable biliary tract cancers in South Western Sydney, Australia - Zhen Howe Hong
• Identification of Exosome-Related G6PD in Breast Cancer and Investigation of Its Prognostic Significance - Rui Jiang
• GDF-15 levels and clinical correlates in head and neck cancer patients: developing a risk model for cachexia - Connor Williams

• Feasibility of extracting clinical quality indicators addressing supportive care management in a high-grade glioma cohort - Mirette Abraham
• Randomized Controlled Trial of the Meaning-Making Intervention (MMi) in Patients Newly Diagnosed with Advanced Cancer: Full Trial - Melissa Henry
• Building consensus and identifying priorities: using a Delphi technique to define core elements and clinical determinates for a nutrition model of care for people with cancer - Jenelle Loeliger
• Polypharmacy and potentially inappropriate medication use: Opportunities for prescriber- and pharmacist-led deprescribing for cancer inpatients. - Sam Maleki
• Time Toxicity and its Relationship with Quality of Life in Patients Undergoing Phase 1 Cancer Clinical Trials - Benita BR Rajvi

• Online communication skills training for healthcare professionals working with First Nations Australians in radiation therapy: Effects on self-reported confidence, skills, and knowledge   - Ken Carter
• The Bare Truth: Uncovering Modesty Concerns to Optimise Radiotherapy Patient Care - Kylie L Dundas
• Strengthening the voice of families impacted by childhood cancer through Redkite's Lived Experience Advisory Group - Rhiannon Edge
• "Data Alone Doesn’t Tell the Story — Patient Voices Must Guide Us"      - Daren Eyles
• Unheard Voices: Exploring Patient and Carer Experiences in Endometrial Cancer Care in Victoria - Frances F Graham
• From Policy to Practice: Developing and Implementing a National Cancer Psychological and Social Support Service (CPSSS) - Justin Gulliver
• Radiotherapy for treatment of granulosa cell tumour of the ovary: working with an international team of consumers to build a database of treatment experiences. - Victoria White

• Exploring the unmet needs of older people living with lung cancer: A qualitative study. - Nicole Knox
• Cancer Survivor and Family Preferences for Prehabilitation for Cancer Surgery: A Discrete Choice Experiment - Rohan Miegel
• Advancing Depression Assessment in Older Adults with Cancer: Development and Validation of the Older Adults with Cancer-Depression Scale (OAC-D), a Novel Patient-Reported Outcome - Christian Nelson
• Is metastatic cancer curable? Insights from a survey of medical oncologists - Shalini Subramaniam
• Double excluded? Breast Cancer and Severe Mental Illness in Women - Stigma, Interrupted Treatment Pathways and the Role of Psycho-oncology - Anna Syska-Bielak
• Implementation and Evaluation of a Nurse-Led Geriatric Oncology Model of Care in lung cancer - Shalini K Vinod

• Experience of intimate partner violence and its influence on cancer patients’ quality of life - Elizabeth O Akin-Odanye
• Who Benefits from Optimal Care? Exploring Equity, Survival, and Costs in Colorectal Cancer Optimal Care Pathway Alignment - Lisa Guccione
• Lotjpa Yapaneyepuk (Talk together) about cancer trials: Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s cancer clinical trials access in regional Victoria. - Leah Lindrea-Morrison
• Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) oncology patients - Sok Mian Ng
• Linking social adversity to stress and coping mechanisms in breast cancer: Towards targeted interventions - Chloe J Taub
• Improving Cancer Outcomes for LGBTQ+ Communities: A Statewide Partnership Approach - Scott C Walsberger
• Social disparities in lung cancer surgery utilisation and prognosis: a statewide, data-linkage study - Jianrong Zhang

• Evaluating the Acceptability of PET-CT guided Patient-Initiated Follow-Up (PIFU) with Digital Support for Head and Neck Cancer Survivors: Qualitative Findings from the PETNECK2 Study - Jo Brett
• Reducing Pain, Empowering Recovery: A Digital Health Approach to Post-Surgical Self-Management in Breast Cancer (ePainQ) - Sue Hartup
• Co-designing equitable access to specialist cancer nursing care: the PANConnect intervention. - Mei Krishnasamy
• Using An Electronic Health Record-Integrated Symptom Monitoring And Reporting Program To Alleviate Symptom Burden   - Jin-Shei Lai
• How is digitally enabled care being used in cancer services for people from ethnic minority backgrounds? A systematic review of models of care and outcomes - Peprah Peprah
• Predictors of unplanned emergency department visits and hospitalisations among adults accessing virtual outpatient oncology services in Queensland, Australia - Ramya Walsan

• Health Inequities in the Context of Cancer: The role of Social Determinants of Health on Patient and Family Caregiver Symptom Burden and Health in the United States - Jennifer Steel
• Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Unmet Needs and Palliative-Supportive Care Services for Cancer Patients and their Caregivers in Turkiye (Turkey) - Ozan Bahcivan
• Dyadic Investigation of Stress Regulation and Sleep Health in Patients with Colorectal Cancer and Their Spousal Caregivers - Youngmee Kim
•  Hardiness in Enhancing Psychological Well-Being and Caregiving Satisfaction Among Informal Caregivers of Cancer Patients - Rachel RK Kansiime
• The meaning-making experiences of Australian individuals with cancer and their family caregivers - Mahala Martin
• The position of adult children as caregivers of seriously ill parents - a Danish qualitative study of adult children’s experiences - Annika von Heymann
• Global perspectives on the cancer journey:  Challenges and resilience in patients and family caregivers - Jennifer L Steel, Ozan Bahcivan, Youngmee Kim, Rachel Kansiime, Jennifer Zunga, Mahala Martin and Annika von Heymann

• The specialised role of a dietitian providing support to women with metastatic breast cancer: insights from the Optimising Care study   - Brooke Baker
• Lived experience in education: the impact of digital versus in-person cancer narratives on self-reported healthcare student empathy levels - Daniel P Johnstone
• Partnering with Communities to Improve Psychosocial Oncology Care: A National Cancer Control Programme Pilot Study - Jennifer Kilkus
• Building a skilled future: the impact of the SKILLED clinical trials internship program on workforce development in Victoria - Christine Packer
• Shaping the future of cancer research and care: A national needs analysis for transformative education - Kyleigh Smith
• Exploring Australian cancer nurses' practices in patient education: addressing seven domains of care - Marisa Stevens
• Strengthening Consumer-Researcher Partnerships: Building Capability for Meaningful Engagement in Cancer Research    - Amanda Winiata