Learning Objectives

• Overall approach to patient management
• Importance of determining if a cancer is curable or incurable
• Multidisciplinary approach to clinical cancer management
• Curative vs adjuvant vs palliative approaches to chemotherapy
• Basic imaging modalities
• Concept of median survival
• Major issues and factors affecting treatment decisions in rural and indigenous patients
• Role in teleoncology in providing specialist services to rural patients

Cancer Management

• describe the overall approach to cancer management?
• generally, what factors determine whether a cancer is curable vs incurable?

Imaging

• cancer management is multidisciplinary, who is involved?
• what imaging modalities are used to cancer?
• what does median survival mean?

Teleoncology

• what are some barriers to ATSI/ rural and remote cancer patients?