Guideline summaries (recommendations only)
Additional guideline resources
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Clinical practice guidelines developed by Cancer Council Australia
- Keratinocyte cancer (basal cell carcinoma and cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma) (commissioned by the Department of Health)
- Diagnosis and management of melanoma (in partnership with Melanoma Institute Australia and supported by Skin Cancer College Australasia and the Australasian College of Dermatologists)
- Surveillance colonoscopy (commissioned by the Department of Health)
- Prevention, early detection and management of colorectal cancer (commissioned by the Department of Health)
- National Cervical Screening Program: Guidelines for the management of screen-detected abnormalities, screening in specific populations and investigation of abnormal vaginal bleeding (commissioned by the Department of Health)
- PSA testing and early management of test-detected prostate cancer
- Diagnosis and management of Barrett’s oesophagus and early oesophageal adenocarcinoma
- Prevention and diagnosis of lung cancer
- Treatment of lung cancer
- Management of apparent early stage endometrial cancer
- Management of adult onset sarcoma
- Management of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer
- Cancer pain management
Cancer Council Australia guideline topics in development
- Clinical practice guidelines for the prevention and diagnosis of lung cancer and treatment of lung cancer have published content available with final, additional questions under development.
Guidelines developed by Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA)
- COSA guidelines for the safe prescribing, dispensing and administration of systemic cancer therapy
- NETs guidelines
- Head and neck cancer nutrition guidelines
- Early detection of cancer in AYAs
- AYA cancer fertility preservation
- Psychosocial management of AYA cancer patients
- COSA clinical practice guidelines for teleoncology
- Cosa commentary templates (6)
- Nutrition monitoring and evaluation/Clinical questions (5)
- CCA commentary templates (1)
- Cosa templates (14)
- Cosa inline commenting button (2)
- CCA templates (1)
- Top level (2)
- Partial templates (2)
- Submission (2)
- Head and neck nutrition guidelines (9)
- Quality nutrition care - Establishing goals/Clinical questions (3)
- Imported vocabulary (7)
- Nutrition implementation - Palliative care/Clinical questions (1)
- CCA template (5)
- Nutrition implementation - Radiotherapy chemotherapy/Clinical questions (3)
- Nutrition implementation - Pre-treatment/Clinical questions (2)
- Pages with broken file links (3)
- Quality nutrition care - Nutrition prescription/Clinical questions (3)
- Commentary templates (3)
- Nutrition implementation - Surgery/Clinical questions (3)
- Pages with reference errors (9)
- Nutrition screening and assessment/Clinical questions (5)
- Quality nutrition care - Nutrition intervention/Clinical questions (4)
- Cosa guidelines (2)
- Inline commenting button (2)
- NETs guidelines (10)