Research Round-up — June 2022 with Dr Kellie Toohey and Dr Michael Chapman

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Kellie Toohey, an exercise physiologist and academic at the University of Canberra. And Dr Michael Chapman, a geriatrician and palliative care physician. He is also the Director of Palliative Care at Canberra Hospital and a researcher at the Australian National University.

Kellie and Michael’s team recently published a systematic review in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship about the effects of physical exercise in the palliative care phase for people with advanced cancer.

Research Round-up — May 2022 with Dr Larry Myers

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Larry Myers, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Cancer Council Queensland. Larry and his team recently published a study in the journal Psycho-Oncology about Mail-out bowel cancer screening: Identifying the behavioural stumbling blocks.

Research Round-up — April 2022 with Dr Rebecca Venchiarutti

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan.

Research Round-up — March 2022 with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan

Kristi Milley speaks with Professor Larissa Nekhlyudov and Professor Ray Chan.

Research Round-up — February 2022 with Dr Fiona Crawford-Williams

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Fiona Crawford-Williams from Flinders University.
Fiona is a research fellow in the Cancer Survivorship program within the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre at the Queensland University of Technology.

Research Round-up — December 2021 with Dr Daniel Jones

Kristi Milley speaks with Dr Daniel Jones an Academic Clinical Lecturer from the University of Leeds. Dan is an academic GP and his PhD looked at the diagnosis of lung and colorectal cancer in primary care.

Research Round-up – June 2021 with Prof Ross Lawrenson & Dr Tania Blackmore

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Professor Ross Lawrenson and Dr Tania Blackmore from the University of Waikato. Ross is an academic GP and Professor of Population Health and Medical Research. Tania is a Senior Research Fellow with a background in Psychology. Together, they have published a study in BMC Family Practice titled How do colorectal cancer patients rate their GP: a mixed methods study.

Research Round-up – May 2021 with Andi Agbejule

Dr Kristi Milley spoke to Andi Agbejule a PhD student in the Cancer Survivorship research group at the University of Queensland.Andi has recently published a systematic review titled ‘Outcomes of cancer survivorship education and training for primary care providers’ in the Journal of Cancer Survivorship. The paper identified published literature regarding cancer survivorship education programs for primary care providers and assessed their outcomes. As a result of the review seven key recommendations were proposed for developing and evaluating survivorship education programs which you can hear about in the episode. One of Andi’s key points was that future educational programs need to be more tailored to primary care practice.