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Discover more about our oncology information for health professionals, including some of the services offered in each stream. If you are a patient or carer please refer to our Types of Cancer page.  Read more

The focus of our work is the assessment of breast cancer symptoms, and the diagnosis and management of breast cancer and pre-cancerous diseases. This care is supported by a multidisciplinary team. Our patients receive care from... Read more

Medical oncologist Associate Professor Linda Mileshkin, who has a major interest in Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP), set up the clinic and now runs it with her team. The team arranges consultations with surgical and radiation... Read more

Brian Le has been appointed to the position of Honorary Clinical Professor in both the Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology and the Department of Medicine – Royal Melbourne Hospital at the University of Melbourne. ... Read more

Some women who undergo preventative surgery to avoid reproductive cancers go on to develop incurable abdominal cancer. A clinical trial, involving Peter Mac, is testing a way to possibly prevent this. Women with a BRCA1 or... Read more

See the story of our patient Kate who, when five-months pregnant, needed emergency bowel cancer surgery. Internationally, this surgery is very rarely performed during pregnancy and it was a first for the surgical team led... Read more