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The Clinical Takeaway: Supporting patients with a rare cancer
The Clinical Takeaway: Supporting patients with a rare cancer

The Clinical Takeaway: Supporting patients with a rare cancer

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In this episode:

 

– Rare cancers aren’t that rare when taken as a collective entity and there is much that can be done for these patients
– Rare cancer Australia must be an early point of contact for the patients and GPs
– The cancer navigators can help find necessary information, suggest referral pathways, support resources, help to access clinical trials and even medications and treatments that may be otherwise too expensive

 

 

 

Host: Dr David Lim, GP and Medical Educator

 

Total time: 46 mins

 

Guest: Dr Emily Isham, General Practitioner

 
 

Recommended resources:

 

– RareCancers.org
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1800 257 600 (Patient Support)
(02) 4862 2768 (General Enquiries)

 
 
 
 

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Speaker

Dr Emily Isham

General Practitioner; Content Manager, Rare Cancers Australia

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General Practitioner (and Rare Cancers Australia Content Manager) Dr Emily Isham grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo. After high school in rural Victoria, she undertook her medical training at The University of Melbourne, graduating in 2007. Since then, she moved to Tasmania with her husband, where she undertook some obstetrics & gynaecology, and paediatric training, a Masters of International Public Health, and specialised in General Practice. She also established an NGO back in the DR Congo. She and her husband have had 5 children over the last 12 years, but had to parent one of their sons through cancer, and, devastatingly, he died at age 6. Outside of work, Emily enjoys long-distance running, music and spending time outdoors with her children." I'm not primarily a skin cancer doctor - I'm a GP with extra skin cancer qualifications.

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