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Profile and Presence
Volume 12 No 2 I March 2016 21
City to Surf
Do you want to challenge yourself and
have fun whilst promoting radiation
therapy and Targeting Cancer?
The 2016 City2Surf will be held on
Sunday, 14 August 2016 and we are
looking for participants to join our team.
The City2Surf is 14km in distance starting
in Sydney’s CBD before heading through
Rose Bay, up ‘Heartbreak Hill’ (the
toughest part of the course) and finishing
at Bondi Beach.
2016 registration dates and entry fees
anticipated to be available in April/May
on the City2Surf website.
We will keep you updated via the Faculty
newsletter and the Targeting Cancer
website.
If you are interested in participating in this
fun event, please register your interest
GP Oncology Education Evenings
GP Oncology Education Evenings provide
General Practitioners (GPs) with the
opportunity to learn about the role of
radiation therapy for their patients from
the team on site in a centre close to them.
The first education evening was held in
October 2014 at Westmead Hospital
in Sydney and since then, around 20
departments across Australia and New
Zealand have hosted these sessions.
Hundreds of GPs have attended the events
and reported that the session significantly
improved their understanding of radiation
therapy and that they would recommend
the session to their colleagues. We would
like to sincerely thank everyone who has
been involved in organising these events
which have proved to be very popular
among practice staff members as well.
Macquarie University Hospital, Mater
Private Hospital Springfield, and Genesis
Cancer Care Shenton House in Australia
and Wellington Hospital in New Zealand
hosted successful GP Oncology Education
Evenings in the first quarter of the year.
All attendees thought highly of the event,
which has improved their knowledge of
radiation therapy, and would recommend
it to their colleagues. Five GP evenings are
already confirmed for 2016, while a further
five sites have expressed interest in hosting
such an evening but are yet to confirm
a date.
We would like to thank our members and
the teams from those sites for organising
these events.
If you are interested in hosting a GP
Oncology Education Evening, please
contact us on
and we will provide all the materials
to assist you.
We are always looking for patient stories,
good news stories about RT, patient
resources and photos that will help in
raising the profile of RT. Please email
us at to share
the resources.
Like Targeting Cancer on Facebook, or
Follow @targetingcancer on Twitter, and
help us spread the word. Please help us
make Targeting Cancer THE brand to
promote our fantastic treatment!
Support Targeting Cancer activities
GP evening recently held at Wellington Hospital