ACSC supports primary, hospital and community based health professionals to deliver optimal survivorship care through a range of fact sheets, online resources and tools.
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The ACSC fact sheets can be ordered using this resource order form.
Fact sheets
Topic specific fact sheets to guide health professionals.
Tumour specific fact sheets for health professionals
Companion resources for cancer survivors are also available.
We also recommend:
- Can-Sleep: Making night-time sleep problems go away – Peter Mac: a guide for people with cancer
- CanEAT Pathway - Peter Mac: a guide to optimal cancer nutrition for people with cancer, carers and health professionals.
Videos
Describing the role of primary care in cancer survivorship:
- Hospital based health professionals (8 minutes)
- Hospital based health professionals – for educators (4 minutes). Use this video in workshops, and team meetings
- General practice staff (8 minutes)
- General practice staff – for educators (4 minutes). Use this video in workshops, and team meetings
- Survivors (8 minutes)
We invite you to provide feedback on the above videos by completing our brief survey.
APNA webinar: Cancer and it's care: for primary health care nurses. The aim of this webinar is to increase primary health care nurses' knowledge about cancer and it's care, including understanding strategies to support patients' post-treatment. Access the recorded webinar, register your details under Register Today, enter your email address in the login bar, then select Join.
Tools
mycareplan.org.au
mycareplan.org.au is an online tool that can be used to create a survivorship care plan after treatment for early-stage breast, prostate or bowel cancer. The website is quick and easy to use, and freely available to health professionals and patients. The website can be accessed at www.mycareplan.org.au.
Survivorship Care Plan template
The ACSC also has developed two Microsoft Word versions of a Survivorship Care Plan template.
The ACSC provides permission to use or adapt the survivorship care plan template for your personal use.
The ACSC provides permission for other health care providers to use or adapt the survivorship care plan template, with inclusion of the following acknowledgement: Adapted from template developed by Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre.
Survivorship Care Plan Component Database
The ACSC has developed the SCP Component Database to support the development of SCPs for breast, prostate and colorectal cancer survivors. Database use is supported by the SCP Component Database User Guide.
ACSC provides permission for other health care providers to use or adapt the database. Register for the SCP Component Database and User Guide.
Toolkits and literature reviews
The ACSC reviews the survivorship literature to provide summaries of the evidence and toolkits to guide implementation.
- Survivorship care plan toolkit (Jan 2016)
- Survivorship care plan literature review (Jan 2016)
- Needs assessment toolkit (Jan 2016)
- Needs assessment tools for survivors review (Jan 2016)
We also recommend:
The ASCO Survivorship Care Compendium has been developed to act as a repository of tools and resources to enable health professionals to implement or improve survivorship care within their practice.
Online learning
The ACSC has developed an online education resource: Cancer Survivorship course.
Multilingual Cancer Glossary
The multilingual glossary has over 700 cancer terms in nine different languages. It has been designed as a resource for professional translators, interpreters and bilingual health professionals working in the cancer field. The glossary is a unique central tool that enables language professionals with access to accurate, consistent and culturally and linguistically appropriate terminology.
This project is a Cancer Australia Supporting people with cancer Grant initiative, funded by the Australian Government.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Victorian Integrated Cancer Services
Victoria’s Integrated Cancer Services (ICS) are the Victorian Cancer Clinical Network and comprise clusters of hospitals and associated health services that deliver services for people with all types of cancers within a geographic area.
For information about each ICS, including participating health services and service directories, please visit the VICS website.
Primary Health Networks
Primary Health Networks (PHNs) have been established with the key objectives of increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of medical services for patients, particularly those at risk of poor health outcomes, and improving coordination of care to ensure patients receive the right care in the right place at the right time. To find out more visit the Department of Health website, or click below to find a network in your state.
State and Territory maps
