Nikki Davis speaks with Dr Gemma Skaczkowski, a Research Fellow from the University of South Australia, about her systematic review: The nature and impact of patient and public involvement in cancer prevention, screening and early detection research. Nikki Davis is a member of PC4’s consumer community and is our guest host for this episode. In this conversation they discuss: -What constitutes patient involvement -What research stage most commonly involves consumers -And the benefits of patient and consumer involvement This review found that involvement is increasing but more involvement is needed across each step of the research process. You can read the full review here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743522004777?via=ihub

Dr Kristi Milley speaks with Associate Professor Dani Margalit from Harvard Medical School. She specialises in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment and is also the Director of Radiation Oncology at the Dana-Farber/Brigham Merkel Cell Cancer Centre. We also welcome back Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti onto the podcast, a Head and Neck Research Fellow at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and at the University of Sydney. Dani and Rebecca are part of a team that has published a new systematic review about interventions for head and neck cancer survivors in the journal Head and Neck.

Today we are lucky to have two guest hosts. Both members of the PC4 Scientific Committee, we are joined by Associate Professor Nicole Rankin, Head of the Evaluation and Implementation Science Unit at the Centre for Health Policy, The University of Melbourne and Dr Claire Nightingale, Senior Research Fellow at Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Claire and Nicole are speaking with Dr Mohamad Saab from University College Cork, Ireland. He is a Lecturer in the UCC School of Nursing and Midwifery and a Registered General Nurse. They discuss Mohamad’s newly published paper, Referring high-risk individuals for lung cancer screening: A systematic review of interventions with healthcare professionals. Mohamad covers many aspects of screening including lung cancer screening services in Ireland vs. the US, the difference between screening and early detection and the importance of using blame-free language when discussing lung cancer.

In this episode Kristi Milley continues her conversation with Professor Jon Emery, Herman Chair of Primary Care Research at the University of Melbourne, and Director of PC4. And Professor Michael Jefford, Medical Oncologist and Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre at the Peter MacCallum Centre. Jon and Michael are part of a team of experts who have published a series of three papers around Cancer Survivorship in the Lancet. And for those of you who aren’t in research, The Lancet would be the silver medallist at the Olympics in medical journals. Today, we’re discussing the first two papers in the series: management of clinical issues experienced by survivors, and improved models of care for cancer survivors.

Today we are speaking with Professor Jon Emery, Herman Chair of Primary Care Research at the University of Melbourne, and Director of PC4. And Professor Michael Jefford, Medical Oncologist and Director of the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre at the Peter MacCallum Centre. Jon and Michael are part of a team of experts who have published a series of three papers around Cancer Survivorship in the Lancet. And for those of you who aren’t in research, The Lancet would be the silver medallist at the Olympics in medical journals. Today, we’re discussing the first two papers in the series: management of clinical issues experienced by survivors, and improved models of care for cancer survivors.

Today we are speaking with Dr Kellie Toohey, an exercise physiologist and academic at the University of Canberra. And Dr Michael Chapman, a geriatrician and palliative care physician. He is also the Director of Palliative Care at Canberra Hospital and a researcher at the Australian National University. Kellie and Michael’s team recently published a systematic review in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship about the effects of physical exercise in the palliative care phase for people with advanced cancer.

Today we are speaking with Dr Larry Myers, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland. Larry and his team recently published a study in the journal Psycho-Oncology about Mail-out bowel cancer screening: Identifying the behavioural stumbling blocks.

Today we are speaking with Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti, a Head and Neck Research Fellow at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and an academic at the University of Sydney. Rebecca has published a new survey of general practitioners in the Australian Journal of Rural Health about the Geographic variation in referral practices for patients with suspected head and neck cancer.

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan. Larissa Nekhlyudov is a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Clinical Director of Internal Medicine for Cancer Survivors at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute in the USA. Ray Chan is the Director of the Caring Futures Institute and Professor of Cancer Nursing at Flinders University in South Australia. Together they have published a new overview of systematic reviews published in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship about the Effectiveness and Implementation of Models of Survivorship Care.

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Fiona Crawford-Williams from Flinders University. Fiona is a research fellow in the Cancer Survivorship program within the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. Fiona currently works in close collaboration with Cancer Council Queensland, conducting research investigating cancer care delivery in regional and rural Queensland. Today we are speaking about her new paper Information needs and preferences among rural cancer survivors in Queensland, Australia: a qualitative examination the Australian and New Zealand journal of public health.