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We meet every third Friday for casual community building between people with lived experience of cancer and cancer researchers. Learning from each other through great chats is fulfilling and can even lead to productive collaborative research.

Note: Usually every third Friday each month, we are meeting early in April due to public holidays.

Once a month we meet for a walk & a coffee to bring together people with lived experience of cancer & cancer researchers.

If you have an experience with cancer, or are a researcher around Nrth Tce, join us! Its an opportunity to ask Qs, hear stories & learn from each other🚶‍♀️🚶

and Dan's second poster is titled

"Patient-Teachers: A cancer-consumer informed approach to using stories of lived experience in healthcare student education"

Visit the posters during the viewing sessions to chat to Dan and Shona next week!

Dan Johnstone has two posters, the first titled

"A cancer-survivor informed approach to healthcare student education: the impact of in-person versus digital storytelling on self-reported empathy in healthcare students"

Your gift will help support continuing research in the delivery of care for those with GI cancer and honour her dreams of ever-better treatments and care. Please give generously, and get tested regularly to safeguard your own health and that of your friends and family.

If you would like to make a donation in memory of Cheri, you can do so at the memorial donations page for the Australasian Gastro-Intestinal Trials Group here: www.inmemory.gicancer.org.au/page/ProfessorCheriOstroff

It was a gift to see Cheri live her life with pragmatism and a keen drive to make a difference, and one we shall cherish.

In our Survivors as Teachers program, Cheri kept the medical students on their toes, and often on the edge of their seats, as she told her story. It was a privilege to listen in on her sessions and the lessons she so generously shared.

Working alongside Cheri was always a lesson in power. She understood deeply what it means to leverage our personal experiences into positive change. She fought for the individual dignity of each and every cancer patient and our right to make choices in our care.

Cheri contributed to many research projects which focused on evidence-based decision-making, the empowerment of patients in seeking clinical trials and developing therapies, and patient-centred care in clinical settings.

She was an admirable colleague and a loyal friend, and her commitment to improving cancer care was inspiring to those around her. She brought her remarkable research prowess to bear in her role as a consumer representative on boards and committees

"...It was funded and supported by Canteen in conjunction with the 6th Global Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Congress held in Melbourne in December, 2024."

"Created by adolescents and young adults impacted by cancer in collaboration with singer-songwriter Luke Escombe. The music video follows the journey of a puppet named YAPS (Youth Advocate Puppet Survivor) from diagnosis through various stages of treatment and recovery. ..."

Shona presented on the plenary panel 'Not one size fits all: Protecting all people in cancer care' on the intersection of disability and cancer care.

Dan had two posters, titled:

'Reflective and Reflexive practices in tertiary healthcare students following cancer patient engagement: A scoping review' and

'Patient-Teachers: A cancer-consumer informed approach to using their stories in the education of healthcare students'