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Ben Smith

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Senior Implementation Scientist at the Daffodil Centre & Cancer Institute NSW Career Development Fellow #impsci #survonc #digitalhealth #healthequity Opinions my own

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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #QuitGPT
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I mean, if you’re worried about falling revenue, the govt could just stop giving away $10bn in fuel tax credits, which even the OECD says is just an industry subsidy that should be dumped. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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EV drivers set to pay road user charges as record number of electric cars selling in Australia
PM says sustainable revenue for roads is needed as report shows nearly one in 10 new car sales are electric vehicles
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Alice Grundy @alicektg.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
An excellent development! Gay and bi men now able to donate blood. I can highly recommend being a donor -- the staff are lovely, the snacks are plentiful and the demand on your time is very small.
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Ban lifted: Gay and bisexual men among over 600,000 Australians newly eligible to donate blood
Rules that have effectively banned all sexually active gay and bisexual men from donating blood and plasma will be lifted, in a world-first move that would expand Australia’s donor pool and redress a ...
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Ludo Waltman @ludowaltman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Glad to see that open or transparent peer review is increasingly gaining ground!
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
🧠New📰in @apajournals.bsky.social #HealthPsychology 🕸️We used network analysis to explore how different components of fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) are interconnected 🎯Findings suggest key intervention targets 📖 Read more: psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #FCR #PsyOnc #SurvOnc @daffodilcentre.org
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U-CARE @u-care.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
🔍 U-CARE study published: Parents of children treated for cancer found an internet-administered CBT self-help programme helpful, but identified room for improvement. Co-analysis with public contributors with lived experience added important insights. 👉 bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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The acceptability and feasibility of an internet-administered, guided, low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy intervention for parents of children treated for cancer: findings from a qualitative ...
Background Despite parents of children treated for cancer commonly reporting psychological difficulties such as symptoms of depression and anxiety, there is a lack of evidence-based psychological inte...
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NEJM.org @nejm.org · 01/06/2025
Late breaking at #ASCO25: A 3-year structured exercise program after adjuvant chemotherapy for colon cancer improved disease-free and overall survival, physical functioning, and fitness, as compared with health education alone. Full CHALLENGE phase 3 trial: nej.md/4mh5RPL @ascocancer.bsky.social
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The OncoAlert Network 🚨 @oncoalert.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
The #ASCO25 #OncoAlertTOP10 Abstracts in #SupportiveCare These are some of our picks of TOP abstracts we look forward to be presented at the upcoming ASCO Meeting in Chicago 🇺🇸
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International Shared Decision Making Society @isdmsociety.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
One final board member introduction remains... Prof @kirstenmccaffery.bsky.social is our hard working, inspiring President of the International #SharedDecisionMaking Society. (1/n)
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The Daffodil Centre @daffodilcentre.org · 16/05/2025
NEW RESEARCH🔬| This study gathered insights from healthcare professionals worldwide, suggesting guidelines to improve the emotional and psychological outcomes of lung cancer screening. READ MORE🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.pe...
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Darcy Burbage, DNP, RN, AOCN @darcyburbage.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Honored to be presenting alongside two of the best Prof @michael-jefford.bsky.social & Prof #LarissaNekhlyudov on this important topic! Please join us in Seattle for this interactive workshop! #oncologynursing @oncoalert.bsky.social @pallonccop.bsky.social @fumikochino.bsky.social
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Interesting perspective on balancing time wealth & financial wealth through values clarification. Can relate! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How Charlie discovered that time wealth can be the key to a slower, happier life | Modern mind
Feeling tired and out of touch with what really matters to him, a busy father tries a few behavioural experiments
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The Daffodil Centre @daffodilcentre.org · 12/05/2025
CONGRATULATIONS🎉| Dr Yuan Ni on your graduation! Yuan's thesis, titled “The Epidemiology of Multiple Primary Melanomas in Australia” was supervised by #DaffodilCentre Prof Anne Cust, and @melanomaau.bsky.social A/Prof Serigne Lo, PhD. 📍 @sydney.edu.au
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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 06/05/2025
This is a great thread. It's also why you can lessen that feeling of time speeding by and everything blurring together by simply doing *different* things. Get out of the rut. Start a new volunteer thing, take on a different role at work, take a vacation if you can, etc.
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Prof Michael Jefford @michael-jefford.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Also pleased to share this just-published paper. Work led by A/Prof Gemma McErlean to define scope and roles of all cancer nurses in the care of cancer survivors, open access at link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Quality cancer survivorship care: a modified Delphi study to define nurse capabilities - Journal of Cancer Survivorship
Purpose To establish capabilities required by nurses to deliver quality cancer survivorship care in Australia. Methods A two-round online modified Delphi involving Australian cancer nurses. Initial do...
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Prof Michael Jefford @michael-jefford.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
A preview of our education session at the ASCO annual meeting is in this ASCO Daily News article. The session will be at 8am on Sunday June 1 in room E450a, dailynews.ascopubs.org/do/treatable...
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Treatable But Not Curable: Addressing Survivorship Care Needs of Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Cancer
An Education Session will highlight the recently released Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and ASCO guidelines for Survivorship Care for People Affected by Advanced or M...
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ISBNPA Implementation & Scale-up SIG @isbnpa-is.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Excited about our upcoming ISBNPA Conference satellite workshop "Scaling Up & Sustaining Health Innovations" 📅 June 4–5 2025 📍 Newcastle NSW More info: ncois.org.au/events/works...
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Stacey Tinianov, MPH @coffeemommy.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Honored to be a featured voice for #ASCO25 Will be sharing highlights from a patient/research advocacy perspective & likely focus in digital health interventions, supportive care advances, and diagnostics that lead to treatment optimization & risk mitigation TY @ascocancer.bsky.social for the oppty
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Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Things that we cover: - How the concept of open science is not new - Whether the benefits of open science outweigh the extra time taken to implement these practices - The responsible development of open science practices in psychology - Data sharing considerations - Plus more!
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Sumudu Hewage (Hay-va-gey) @sumudu-hewage.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🧠 Big takeaway from our paper just out: Introducing apps into healthcare isn’t all about tech — it’s also about navigating people, practices, and perceptions. Without early planning and local alignment, even the best apps can struggle! 📄 Read the full paper here: www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66815
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Integrating a Mobile App to Enhance Atrial Fibrillation Care: Key Insights From an Implementation Study Guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research
Background: Despite the growing use of mobile health apps in managing chronic heart disease, their integration into routine care remains challenging due to dynamic, context-specific barriers. Objectiv...
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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
From the first page alone: executive travel at ANU over one-year would pay for NINETY FIVE entry-level lecturers.
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 29/04/2025
Opinion | What's happening in Donald Trump's America is having a profound impact on journalism in Australia. And depending on the outcome of the election, it could get even worse.
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Amid Dutton's 'hate media' and Trump's despotism, press freedom is more vital than ever
Australia’s press is already in a perilous state. But things could easily become worse.
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🎉 Congrats to @drannasingleton.bsky.social from @daffodilcentre.org on winning the @ipospsychooncol.bsky.social 2025 Hiroomi & Setsuko Kawano New Investigator Award for her research providing accessible & scalable psychosocial support to cancer survivors 🌟 ipos-society.org/awards/winners 👏 #IPOS2025
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International Psycho-Oncology Society - Award Winners
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Robert Stribley @stribs.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Love this. In his “I Agree” installation Dima Yarovinsky-Yahel took the content from terms of service statements for companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder and printed them out on A4 paper with a standard font size for legal contracts to demonstrate the length of these agreements.
Alt-Txt: Two people stand before multi-color strips of paper with text on them that stretch down an entire wall and onto the floor. The title of the installation "I Agree" appear in all caps on the wall, too.
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@cei-global @cei-global.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Step up to the podium! Tell the world about your work in #impsci, #evaluation, #EvidenceSynthesis, #KnowledgeTranslation, any project where you're bringing #research #evidence into #policy & #practice. #abstracts close 18 May @eisummit.org & @ishca-25.bsky.social combined: www.eisummit.org/abstracts
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ImpSci @ UW @impsciuw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
📣 We’d love to hear from anyone who has used or considered using the Equity Check feature on our website to develop their #impsci research questions! 📣 ➡️ What was most helpful? ➡️ What could we do better? ➡️ What did we miss?
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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza
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World must act with urgency to save Palestinians in Gaza
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Menzies School of Health Research @menziesresearch.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
🎙️ New podcast episodes out now | Three new episodes of Menzies’ Ask the Specialist are now live, sharing insights on culturally safe palliative care for First Nations patients. 🎧 Listen now: www.menzies.edu.au/page/Resourc...
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 10/04/2025
Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.
RFK Jr. says HHS will determine the cause of autism by September
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
My dad turns 90 this year & I almost got a bit teary reading this reflection from Tim Baker about how our relationships with parents change over time and the little things we can do to support their happiness as they age & the activities they love doing everyday become more challenging #Ageing
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Great to be at the #PoCoG World Psycho-Oncology Day event celebrating 20 years of world-leading #psyonc research done by PoCoG, including lots of great fear of cancer recurrence research, which I’ve been fortunate to be part of Lots more work (particularly implementation) to do in the next 20 years
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
This World Psycho-Oncology Day I’m grateful to work with the @daffodilcentre.bsky.social Triple I (Innovation-Implementation-Impact) team evaluating & implementing programs to improve the quality of life of people living with & beyond cancer daffodilcentre.org/streams/trip... #WPOD #PsyOnc #SkyCan
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Triple I (Innovation-Implementation-Impact) - The Daffodil Centre
We produce evidence supporting implementation of innovations to positively impact cancer control and care. We use qualitative and quantitative methods to deliver priority-driven, co-designed, and impl...
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Lauren Ball @proflaurenball.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
In research, we always strive for success. But, should we also be planning for the downsides that come from success? I've been reflecting on this lately, check it out. Please let me know what you think and whether this resonates with you and those around you. www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-su...
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Can success in research be a double-edged sword?
Success in research is a remarkable achievement. Publishing in high-impact journals, securing grants, growing a research team and being recognised as an esteemed research leader are all enviable exper...
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Menzies School of Health Research @menziesresearch.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS | EOI’s are now open to present your work at the First Nations Health Communication Symposium (21 & 22 Aug 2025) hosted by the Communicate Study Partnership. Submit your application by 16 May 2025: bit.ly/4iaoba5 @annapralph.bsky.social
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The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific @lancetrh-wpac.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
🆕 First long-term #projections for #cancer prevalence associated with key #PanTumour #biomarkers in #Australia to 2042, to inform health policy & planning for targeted therapies. #MedSky #OncSky @daffodilcentre.bsky.social @juliasteinberg.bsky.social @qingweiluo.bsky.social 🔗Check out full text!
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Informing health system planning for biomarker-based treatment: statistical prevalence projections for solid cancers with key pan-tumour biomarkers (dMMR, MSI, high TMB) in Australia to 2042
We present the first long-term projections for cancer prevalence associated with key pan-tumour biomarkers in Australia, to inform health policy and healthcare planning for targeted therapies.
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The Daffodil Centre @daffodilcentre.org · 07/04/2025
NEW RESEARCH🔬| A recent study in Australia found that digital technology use is highly prevalent among participants aged 55 to 74 years, but significantly decreases in those over 75 years. 🌐Read the full article🔗 lnkd.in/g2NcJYRv
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Brooke Nickel @brookenickel.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Most of what influencers are doing or promoting on social media in relation to health and “wellness” doesn’t have any evidence to support it. My thoughts on influencer morning routines here: www.abc.net.au/listen/https... @sydneyhealthlitlab.bsky.social @wiserhealthcare.bsky.social
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The 'unhealthy' obsession with morning routine videos - ABC listen
How the rich, famous and super-healthy start their day has undeniable appeal to the rest of us. Trending social media posts are littered with influencers and celebrities sharing their morning routines...
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Discover how a self-guided eHealth intervention for #ColorectalCancer survivors was transformed into a tailored, therapist-guided version to enhance patient outcomes. Read more in @jmirpub.bsky.social Cancer: cancer.jmir.org/2025/1/e63486 #CancerResearch #eHealth @daffodilcentre.bsky.social #CanSky
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Adapting a Self-Guided eHealth Intervention Into a Tailored Therapist-Guided eHealth Intervention for Survivors of Colorectal Cancer
Therapist-guided eHealth interventions have been shown to engage users more effectively and achieve better outcomes than self-guided interventions when addressing psychological symptoms. Building on t...
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Hayley Gullen @hayleygullen.com · 06/04/2025
I would like to see more nuanced representations of cancer in popular culture. The rules of the Gullen Test are: 1. The person with cancer talks about something that is not cancer 2. The person with cancer does not die of cancer #cansky #graphicmedicine 1/8
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OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Dense Breasts, Screening Limitations and Equity in Breast Cancer Outcomes - Olubukola Ayodele @bookiephronesis.bsky.social oncodaily.com/blog/olubuko... #Cancer #BreastCancer #CancerDiagnosis #EarlyDetection #CancerScreening #Medicine #Health #Oncology #OncoDaily
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Olubukola Ayodele: Dense Breasts, Screening Limitations and Equity in Breast Cancer Outcomes - OncoDaily
Olubukola Ayodele: Dense Breasts, Screening Limitations and Equity in Breast Cancer Outcomes / Breast Cancer, Breast Density, cancer, Olubukola Ayodele,
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🌸Bibi🌸♿ @bibiblossoms.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I've learned over the years that anyone and I mean ANYONE that's more concerned about people playing the system for disability benefits. Than those on disability currently suffering and not receiving enough support. Does not truly care about disabled people.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Assoc Prof Alison Pearce @aliepea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Exciting to be in Melbourne to present at the @vcccalliance.bsky.social Data Connect Showcase. Such amazing work happening through this program - a fantastic data resource that can lead to real world practice change: 📊 ➡️ 👩‍⚕️ @sydney.edu.au #DaffodilCentre #DataConnect #HealthEconomics
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#Penguingate
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Jia (Jenny) Liu MD PhD @jiajennyliu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Looking forward to joining this stellar team on important webinar on #cancersurvivorship #oncsky 📅 Date: Tuesday, 27 May 2025 ⏰ Time: 7:00-8:30PM (UTC+10:00) Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney ➡️ Register today - lnkd.in/gw5GJSZk
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
🚨New 2 min🎞️summarising step-by-step plan to address fear of #cancer recurrence in clinical practice. Watch youtu.be/cr_3KEOTAv8?... Read the 📰 👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1... Listen to the podcast w/ @bogda-koczwara.bsky.social & Sophie Lebel🎙️ oncologynews.com.au/clinical-foc... Explanatory🧵👇
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Step-by-step: A clinical pathway for stepped care management of fear of cancer recurrence
YouTube video by The Daffodil Centre
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Helen Pearson @helenpearson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Are smartphones and social media really harming adolescents’ mental health? I reported on this for @nature.com and found a big debate over the evidence, but useful advice for parents and young people. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Researchers are debating the strength of evidence connecting technology to surging rates of adolescent mental illness. But they have some clear advice for parents.
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Ben Smith @bensmithphd.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Important @aunz.theconversation.com article from Ash Chauhan & co highlighting the need for tailored solutions to address the unacceptably high likelihood of things going wrong in the care of people affected by #cancer from migrant backgrounds #healthequity theconversation.com/cancer-patie...
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Cancer patients from migrant backgrounds have a 1 in 3 chance of something going wrong in their care
This is unacceptably high and we need targeted solutions.
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Dr Pete Sarich @petesarich.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The Daffodil Centre is now on Bluesky! Follow @daffodilcentre.bsky.social for updates on our latest research on cancer control and policy.
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