Eric Yeung 2025 Joint Meeting of the COSA ASM and IPOS Congress

Eric Yeung

Eric Yeung Affiliations CanRevive Incorporated, President Brief biography Eric Yeung is the President of CanRevive Incorporated, the first and one of the largest community support organisatjon for Chinese-speaking people with cancer and their caregivers. It aims to help minimise the impact of cancer on individuals and their families by providing information and emotional support to cater to their cultural and linguistic needs. Eric set the strategic direction of CanRevive, led the executive committee, which oversees all aspects of the organisation's activities, including program development, planning, and implementation. CanRevive operates a comprehensive set of programs that start with the Living with Cancer Program delivered in collaboration with the cancer services of major hospitals. Targeting newly diagnosed cancer patients and their caregivers with in-language information sessions that cover all aspects of their cancer journey. In-house support groups, information sessions, and therapeutic programs engage cancer patients and caregivers on issues of survivorship, palliative care, and end-of-life care in the cancer continuum, and finally, bereavement support for the caregivers and families. The latest programs are digital mentoring of elderly patients and carers by our trained volunteers, and a series of programs focus on the mental health and wellbeing of not only the cancer patients and their families but also that of CanRevive's staff and volunteers. CanRevive has previously and successfully collaborated with local medical institutions and medical professionals, community organisation, and all levels of governments on projects focusing on the improvement of cancer care and survivorship among people affected by cancer from the Chinese-speaking background. In collaboration with Cancer Council NSW, in 2009, CanRevive held the first in-language (Chinese) Cancer Awareness and Resource Expo in Australia, 2012 Hepatitis B /Liver cancer program targeting Chinese-speaking migrants in Western and South-Western Sydney. 2015/16 Liver cancer awareness & resources program, 2016/17 with BCNA Road to recovery - information for Chinese women affected by Breast cancer, 2017/18 Bowel cancer screening and awareness for Australian Chinese, Light in the Darkness — Information & resources for palliative care cancer patients and their families with Chinese background. 2022/24 Supporting Women with cancer from Chinese, Vietnamese & Arabic speaking backgrounds after treatment, a qualitative study for a co-designed supportive care program. Eric Yeung is a multicultural (consumer) representative on the NSW Cancer Plan Advisory Committee, a member of the PC4 Community Advisory Group, a chief investigator, and associate investigator, and external collaborator with many ongoing NHMRC, MRFF, Cancer Australia, and Cancer Institute NSW-funded studies and programs as a consumer representative of the CALD communities. Eric also has lived experience as a primary carer for cancer patients for over four years.