Survivors Teaching Students® is a volunteer program that brings the faces and voices of ovarian cancer survivors and caregivers into the classrooms of health professional students to teach them about women’s experiences with the disease. ANZGOG [...]
ANZGOG is excited to announce that Dr Helen Gooden, National Manager of the Survivors Teaching Students program, has been nominated as a Westfield Local Hero and selected as a top six finalist for Westfield Sydney. [...]
Elsa Larsen lost her sister Kristen to ovarian cancer, after battling the disease for 6 years. Elsa was invited to share Kristen's story at the 2021 Cancer Nurses Society of Australia (CNSA) Annual Congress. [...]
In light of International Nurses Day that marks the contribution that nurses make to society, meet Victoria, regional nurse and ovarian cancer survivor. Victoria's story demonstrates the impact of her diagnosis, the importance of gynaecological nurses, [...]
Team Teal is an annual fundraising campaign led by ANZGOG's fundraising arm - WomenCan - in partnership with the Harness Racing industry in Australia and New Zealand. The annual Team Teal campaign, a partnership [...]
Team Teal is an annual fundraising campaign led by ANZGOG's fundraising arm - WomenCan - in partnership with the Harness Racing industry in Australia and New Zealand. For 6 weeks over February and March, WomenCan [...]
Thank you to all that attended the session. A recorded version can be viewed below: For more information on the STS program, please head to the webpage or contact Elise Ackland (contact@anzgog.org.au/02 [...]
Rachel Bamber is a Survivors Teaching Students Presenter and an ovarian cancer survivor. Why are you interested in volunteering for ANZGOG? For me to be here, two other women didn’t make it. Those women need survivors [...]
May 21, 2020 #NationalVolunteerWeek It is National Volunteers Week and the 2020 theme is “Changing communities – Changing lives”. ANZGOG is asking you to join us in honouring and sincerely thanking all our volunteers who support [...]
Survivors Teaching Students volunteers Heather, Doug and Kristin speak to Alison Dance (Journalist and ANZGOG Volunteer) about the program and how it is educating health professional students across Australia about ovarian cancer: [...]
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Virtually every advance in cancer survival has been made on the back of clinical trials.
As the peak, national gynaecological cancer clinical trials organisation for Australia and New Zealand, ANZGOG‘s purpose is to improve outcomes and quality of life for women with gynaecological cancer by conducting research.
We conduct and promote clinical trials and undertake multidisciplinary research into the causes, prevention and treatments of gynaecological cancers.
Research Community Volunteers will have the opportunity to contribute to ANZGOG research at every stage of the development process.
Community volunteers will lend their voices to research discussions sharing their personal perspective and representing the broader views of people with lived experience of gynaecological cancer.
Opportunities range from sharing your lived experience as a participant on a research grant working party or a Trial Management Committee, through to Research Advisor and Expert roles requiring additional levels of education and expertise in research analysis.
Gynaecological cancer research is critically needed but critically underfunded. WomenCan is the fundraising arm of ANZGOG, supporting ANZGOG by funding our programs to improve life for women with gynaecological cancer.
WomenCan’s mission is to engage the community to fund pioneering discoveries that will enable women with a gynaecological cancer to live better and live longer.
WomenCan believes the power of the collective, united in a common purpose, can make a real difference in the lives of women with gynaecological cancers.
ANZGOG’s Survivors Teaching Students (STS) Program is a ground-breaking volunteer program that brings gynaecological cancer survivors and caregivers into the classrooms of health professional students to teach them about women’s experiences with the diseases.
Survivors and caregivers are in a unique position to help students understand the ‘lived experience’ of a gynaecological cancer, including the psychosocial impact, and the importance of timely diagnosis, good health communication and compassionate care.
By joining STS and sharing your story, you will have the opportunity to impact the future care of women diagnosed with a gynaecological cancer, with participating students reporting not only increased understanding of gynaecological cancers but also a deeper understanding of the patient experience to take forward into their practice.
Since the program began at ANZGOG in 2017, our volunteers have shared their stories with more than 11,000 students across Australia and New Zealand.
