Position Statements

Cancer Voices NSW publishes these short papers so that our views on the topics can be accessed easily. Those with links have been completed or updated. For more info contact us.

Updated

• Access to high cost cancer drugs
• Best practice consumer representation
• Cancer treatment options & informed financial consent (June 2018)
• Consumer involvement in research (CIR)
• Coordination of cancer care
• End of Life and Palliative Care (August 2021)
• Improving IPTAAS Equity (June 2018)
• Informed decision making – about cancer treatment options and costs
• Medicinal Cannabis in NSW (January 2019)
• Pharmaceutical Companies Relationships (January 2019)
• Radiotherapy services
• Voluntary Assisted Dying (June 2021)

Previous

• Access to PET Scans
• Access to Reliable Information
• Best Practice Consumer Representation
• Cancer of the Unknown Primary
• Comprehensive Cancer Centres for NSW
• Complementary and Alternative Therapies in the Treatment of Cancer
• Coordination of Care at End of Life
• Consumer Involvement in Research
• Dying With Dignity and Control
• Emergency Department Treatment of Febrile Cancer Patients Currently or Recently Receiving Chemotherapy
• Financial Challenges Faced by People Affected by Cancer
• Multidisciplinary Care
• Outstanding IPTAAS Issues for Patients
• Pain Management
• Palliative Care Reform and Re-Funding
• Personalised Medicine Through Cancer Genomics
• Pet Scans -Better Access
• Pharmaceutical Industry Relationships
• Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging
• Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging – Medicare Rebates
• Radiotherapy Issues
• Radiotherapy Sites in NSW as at January 2001
• Rehabilitation Following Treatment for Cancer
• Rural and Remote Cancer Issues
• Shortages of Cancer Specialists in NSW
• Survival Plans for Cancer Patients Post Treatment