January: Cervical cancer
The cancer team at the Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet have put together a “Cervical cancer resource package” for the month of January focusing on what programs, resources, publications, projects and organisations are available to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their carers affected by cervical cancer.
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Programs:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander well women's screening program (SA)
An integrated national assessment of cervical cancer prevention, incidence and survival for Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women: a data linkage study (National)
Exploring the impact on Aboriginal women of living with chronic disease (National)
National cervical screening program (National)
Effects of co-morbidities on cervical cancer treatment and survival (National)
Well women's cancer screening program (NT)
Organisations:
Cancer Australia
Australian Cervical Cancer Foundation
Resources:
Healthy Koori women, growing strong: take care of yourself, have a pap test every two years (Poster)
If I can do it: you can too: a pap test can save your life (Poster)
Join the fight against cervical cancer (DVD)
Pap tests: what if my pap test is abnormal? - Koori women (Brochure)
Screening to prevent cervical cancer: guidelines for the management of asymptomatic women with screen detected abnormalities (Report)
Bibliography:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health: accuracy of patient self-report of screening for diabetes, high cholesterol and cervical cancer (2015)
Factors associated with cancer-specific and overall survival among Indigenous and non-Indigenous gynaecologic cancer patients in Queensland, Australia: a matched cohort study (2015)
Cervical screening in Australia 2012-2013
Cervical screening in Indigenous populations: revisiting possibilities for self-collection technique (2015)
How well is the National Cervical Screening Program performing for Indigenous Australian women? Why we don't really know, and what we can and should do about it (2014)
National cervical cancer prevention data dictionary: version 1: working paper (2014)
Please contact us if you know of any programs, organisations or resources that have a particular focus on Cancer or any other aspect of Aboriginal health that you would like to share. We would love to hear from you! Please send me an email at: m.hollows@ecu.edu.au
We currently have 307 mob members on the NICaN yarning place, but we would love more so feel free to tell colleagues to join up!
Kind regards,
Mikayla
Research Assistant
Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet
Helping to 'close the gap' by providing the evidence base to inform practice and policy in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
