ANZUP ASM Convenor’s Report continued

ANZUP ASM Speaker Interviews

Professor Piet Ost John Oliffe

We were delighted to have Associate Professor Piet Ost, Radiation Oncologist from Ghent University Hospital in Belgium, as one on our international guests at this year’s ANZUP ASM. Midway through the conference I was given the opportunity to interview him on different aspects of his research. Piet and I discussed the role of hypofractionated radiation and its role in acting as an immune primer when given in combination with systemic therapy agents. We also discussed the challenges of managing oligometastatic prostate cancer. Piet and his research team have recently completed accrual to the STOMP study a randomised trial assessing stereotactic radiation in this setting. He shared with us a summary of the STOMP trial and his team’s current and future research plans for oligometastatic patients. If you were unlucky enough miss the ASM this year, this interview provides a summary of what he presented at the meeting and would be of interest to medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and urologists alike. You can watch our full interview here. I sat down with Prof. John Oliffe about the work he is doing with the Men’s Health Research Group out of the University of British Columbia. John has such an interesting perspective on men and health, the way we generally talk about men’s deficits as part of health, and the ways we can change the conversation to connect more effectively with men around their health. He has done some wonderful work with military veterans to develop a recover from post-traumatic stress disorder that build on men’s strengths; this approach has also shown promise when used in groups of men with prostate cancer. I so enjoyed our conversation and could have kept talking for hours! You can watch our full interview here.

HARYANA DHILLON Research Fellow, CeMPED School of Psychology, University of Sydney

TANYA HOLT Senior Radiataion Oncologist, Mater Radiation Oncology Centre

I really enjoyed listening to Piet [Ost] talk about the issues around radiation and some of the cutting edge research that’s happening in the area is fantastic – the innovation, the challenge, the discussion amongst everyone in the conference room.

DELEGATES AT THE 2016 ANZUP ASM