Concurrent 3 | Patient Experience

11am – 12.30pm AWST, 18 June 2026 ‐ 1 hour 30 mins

Concurrent sessions

Explore patient and caregiver experiences across cancer care delivery, with a focus on access, equity and emerging models of care. This session highlights insights from home-based treatments, outpatient services, symptom management and advanced technologies, alongside research examining stigma, engagement and service utilisation.

Time Abstract Title Presenter
11:00 – 11:15 Access to unscheduled symptom management support: A multisite evaluation of patient and caregiver experiences of symptom and urgent review clinics Polly Dufton
11:15 – 11:30 Patient experiences of receiving home-based immunotherapy infusions, Perth, Western Australia: A constructivist grounded theory study Patricia Cook
11:30 – 11:45 Outcomes of implantation of totally implanted vascular access devices for oncology patients in interventional radiological suites or operating rooms: A systematic review Trudie Lawson
11:45 – 12:00 Understanding equity and access in cancer care outpatient services through patterns of non-attendance: A retrospective cohort study Brighid Scanlon
12:00 – 12:15 Analysis of anticipated stigma in patients with permanent intestinal ostomy after colorectal cancer surgery Ying Bi
12:15 – 12:30 Advancing care beyond technology: Patient experience and satisfaction with MR-Linac radiotherapy Monique Blanchard