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The types of tests you have will depend on your age and the type of cancer you have. They will also depend on the stage of your disease and the results of earlier tests. You might be having one or several of the tests (‘investigations’) that we describe here - including biopsies, genetic testing, imaging, and pathology. These will help us with formulating a diagnosis.
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- Types of cancer
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- Aggressive lymphoma
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- Blood cancer treatment and support
- Haematology long term follow-up and survivorship
- Low grade lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and related diseases
- Myeloma and autologous stem cell transplantation
- Myeloproliferative diseases
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- Bone and soft tissue cancer
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- Breast cancer
- Cancer of Unknown Primary
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- Hodgkin lymphoma and aggressive non-hodgkin lymphoma clinical trials
- Indolent non-hodgkin lymphoma and T-cell lymphoproliferative disease clinical trials
- Late effects and survivorship clinical trials
- Multiple myeloma clinical trials
- Myelodysplastic syndromes clinical trials
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- Non-malignant haematology clinical trials
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- Lower gastrointestinal cancer clinical trials
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- Melanoma and skin cancer clinical trials
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- Support services
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- Life after treatment
- About cancer survivorship and the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre
- For survivors and carers: survivorship resources and information
- For Health professionals: survivorship resources and information
- Resources and tools
- Survivorship in specific populations
- Events for health professionals
- Education and professional development
- Models of survivorship care
- Victorian Quality Cancer Survivorship Care Framework and Policy Template (2021)
- Directory of post-treatment, survivorship care guidelines
- Statewide survivorship care work
- Survivorship research
- Common Survivorship Issues Directory
- Anxiety and depression
- Cancer related fatigue
- Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy
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- Fear of cancer recurrence or progression
- Fertility
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- Lymphoedema
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- Information and resources
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- CAR T-cell therapy guide
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- Clinical trials, treatment and procedures
- Coronavirus information
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- Genetic testing for Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes
- Genetics and family cancers
- Health management and wellness
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