Genomic Testing in Familial Cancer

Genomic Testing in Familial Cancer

An interactive case-based workshop for medical specialists and health professionals working with familial cancer patients.

By Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance

Date and time

Fri, 2 Dec 2022 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST

Location

Online

About this event

Are you confident in requesting genetic or genomic tests when you suspect familial cancer? Can you confidently interpret a genomic test report and know what to do about a VUS? Do you know when to refer to a Familial Cancer Clinic? Join this interactive case-based workshop.

Who is it for? Medical and radiation oncologists, surgeons (e.g. breast cancer surgeons), trainees and consultants, oncology nurses, interested GPs.

Expert presenters and facilitators: Dr Simon Bodek, Clinical Geneticist, Austin Health; A/Prof Yoland Antill, Medical Oncologist, Cabrini Health, Monash FCC, Parkville FCC; Dr Mark Cleghorn, Advanced Trainee Clinical Genetics, RMH; Heather Chalinor, Genetic Counsellor, Austin Health; Maira Kentwell, Genetic Counsellor, Melbourne Genomics .

What will I learn?

  • Advantages and limitations of genomic tests
  • Interpreting variants and genomic test reports
  • The latest in data handling, insurance & privacy
  • Identifying rare hereditary cancer syndromes
  • Managing potential cancer risk
  • Family history details important for inherited cancer predisposition
  • Consent, counselling, and referral to FCC

WHEN: Saturday 3 December, 9:00am - 12:00 noon

WHERE: online via zoom

ONLINE PRE-READING: opens 1 November 2022. Foundational concepts. We will notify you with details for accessing the module.

FREE WORKSHOP - REGISTER NOW

Further enquiries: fran.maher@melbournegenomics.org.au

Organised by

Melbourne Genomics Health Alliance

Genomics has huge potential to improve healthcare. Looking at the genome can help diagnose illness more quickly and easily, as well as help understand what treatment or care might be most effective.

Melbourne Genomics is an alliance of 10 leading healthcare and research organisations dedicated to bringing the global knowledge of genomics to benefit the individual care of Victorians.

Together, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, The Royal Children’s Hospital, The University of Melbourne, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, the CSIRO, the Australian Genome Research Facility, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Austin Health and Monash Health are forging a path forward for patients, clinicians and researchers to benefit from the enormous potential of genomics.

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