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Why Attend?

  • Global Networking: Connect with fellow healthcare professionals and experts from around the world, fostering collaborations that transcend borders.
  • Actionable Insights: Equip yourself with tools and strategies to drive impactful changes in your own healthcare setting, from prevention to end-of-life care.

Program At-A-Glance

DAY 1 (November 4): Quality Improvement and Supporting System Change

(21:55 - 01:35 GMT)  Time Zone Converter: CHECK YOUR LOCAL TIME

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1.1  PANEL DISCUSSION:  ISNCC - Forty Years Together:  Nurses Addressing the Global Burden of Cancer Together

Session Chair:  Distinguished Prof. Patsy Yates

Speakers:   ISNCC Past Presidents

The focus of this session is:

  • Reflections on how nurses’ contribution to cancer control have evolved over the past 40 years and how we can build on this history to advance our future

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Learn about key achievements and milestones in cancer nursing over the past 40 years
  • Hear the perspectives of Past Presidents of ISNCC regarding the opportunities and challenges for the future of cancer nursing

1.2  WORKSHOP:  PROcision Care:  Using Patient Reported Outcomes to Personalize Care Delivery

Session Chair:  Darryl Somayaji
Speaker:  Dr. Linda Watson

The focus of this session includes exploration of:

  • The increasing use of standardized, validated questionnaires to gather information directly from patients about their symptoms, functioning, and well-being [ie, patient-reported outcomes (PROs)] as part of routine care
  • Using PROs in clinical practice has demonstrated benefits, including improved patient-clinician communication, enabling problems detection, informing symptom management, and improving outcomes.
  • PROcision Care simply refers to using the PROs information to inform patients' care and management
  • This session will focus on building foundational knowledge about PROs in practice and enhancing nursing capacity to utilize PRO data to guide clinical actions in order to improve outcomes for patients.
  • Case studies will be used to guide learning and discussion.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Understand why the routine use of PROs in ambulatory cancer care is growing
  • Explore the concept of PROcision Care as a route to improving outcomes for the patient
  • Review several clinical case studies, exploring how PRO information can enable PROcision Care
  • Explore the central role cancer nurses play in the delivery of PROcision Care.


1.3  WORKSHOP:  Building Capacity for Quality Improvement in Health Care Settings

Session Chair:  Jo Visser
Speakers:  Joanne Burke-Bajaj, Neil Drimer, Sarah Olver

The focus of this session is

  • Introduction to Quality Improvement Basics

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Understand the Model for Improvement and how to implement
  • Identify problems, root causes, and potential solutions
  • Learn how to test changes
  • Learn to measure improvement

DAY 2 (November 5): Improving Outcomes of Cancer Treatments

(05:25 - 09:05 GMT) Time Zone Converter: CHECK YOUR LOCAL TIME

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2.1  SYMPOSIUM: Promoting Patient Leadership and Driving Change in Survivorship – A Consumer Advocates Perspective

Session Chair:  Suzanne Bishaw

Speaker:  Makala Castelli


2.2  WORKSHOP:  Oncology Nurse Advocacy for Age Friendly Cancer Care

Session Chair:  Suzanne Bishaw

Speaker:  Professor Mei Krishnasamy

The focus of this session is:

  • Recognising ageism and its impact on experience and outcomes of care
  • Working with patients and carers to design age-friendly care - communicating what matters most and recognising and responding to elder abuse

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Better understand what constitutes ageism in cancer care and its impact on patient outcomes
  • Recognise ageist beliefs in their own practice and identify steps to combat ageism in cancer care
  • Be introduced to and consider application of consumer co-designed resources to strengthen age-friendly cancer care in their settings.

2.3  SYMPOSIUM:  Enhancing Cervical Cancer Screening Equity: A Multilayered Approach Integrating Multimedia Intervention,       Community Health Workers, and Empowering Decisions using Decision Aids

Session Chair:  Suzanne Bishaw
 Speakers:  President Prof. Winnie So and A/Prof. Dorothy Chan

The focus of this session is:

  • Multimedia Interventions: Utilizing various media formats (videos, booklet, website) to raise awareness and provide education about cervical cancer screening.
  • Community Health Workers (CHWs): Engaging CHWs to bridge gaps in healthcare access, provide personalized outreach.
  • Decision Aids: Implementing decision aids to empower individuals in making informed choices regarding cervical cancer screening options.

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Enhance understanding of importance of promoting cancer screening equity
  • Recognise how to improve access to screening services through community engagement and CHW support.
  • Learn how to empower decision-making through providing tools that facilitate informed choices about health, catering to the unique needs of diverse populations.

2.4  ORAL PRESENTATION: Exploring the Decision-Making Process of Palliative Care among Male Caregivers

Session Chair:  Suzanne Bishaw

Speaker:  Cindy Wang


2.5  ORAL PRESENTATION: Early Palliative Care: Integrating an Innovative Nurse-led Approach in Oncology

Session Chair: Suzanne Bishaw

Speaker:  Stephanie Lelond


2.6  SYMPOSIUM: Models of Patient-Led Survivorship Care

Session Chair:  Suzanne Bishaw

Speaker:  Makala Castelli

DAY 3 (November 6): Reducing The Burden of Patients with Advanced Disease

(15:55 - 19:35 GMT)  Time Zone Converter: CHECK YOUR LOCAL TIME

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3.1  CALL FOR ACTION:  Global Needs for Paediatric Palliative Care

Session Chair:  Stavroula Chante

Speaker:  Prof. Julia Downing


3.2  SYMPOSIUM:  Oncology Nurse Advocacy for Equitable Cancer Care

Session Chair:  Stavroula Chante

Speaker:  Prof. Mei Krishnasamy

The focus of this session is:

  • Overview of the impact of social determinants of health on access to care and cancer outcomes
  • Consider the potential of cancer nurses to advocate for equitable cancer care at point of care delivery: every nurse - every patient

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Better understand the impact of social determinants of health on patient outcome
  • Be introduced to and consider application of a novel nursing equity tool (the NEAT) in practice.

3.3  WORKSHOP:  Making the most of contemporary approaches to education and training

Session Chair:  Marisa Durao Portela Lima

Speaker:  Heather Richardson

The focus of this session is:

  • Embedding novel contemporary approaches to education and training in palliative care

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Gain insights into new opportunities for learning
  • Appreciate the role of technology in knowledge and skills transfer
  • Identify new partners in any education and training initiatives
  • Learn from the mistakes and triumphs of an education and training provider working in the field of palliative care


3.4  SYMPOSIUM:  Cancer Prevention Across Europe (PrEvCan), Key Learning Experiences and Impact

Session Chair:  Marisa Durao Portela Lima

Speakers:  Dr. Lena Sharp and Prof. Kristi Rannus

The focus of this session is to:

  • Explore the impact of health literacy, public health campaigns and cancer prevention strategies within subgroups across Europe
  • Describe the role of the cancer nurse in reducing the burden of cancer in different subgroups of a population

Learning Outcomes

Participants will:

  • Gain knowledge on cancer prevention literacy and cancer nurses’ roles in health promotion and public health campaigns
  • Improve skills related to reaching out with cancer prevention information among different population sub-groups

Registration Fees

  • $50 Low-income and Low-middle-income countries
  • $125 Upper-middle-income and High-income countries

ISNCC fee structures are based on the World Bank List of Economies Classification
(Please note there are no refunds for cancellations;  please contact info@isncc.org if any questions)

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