The National Cancer Survivorship Conference is hosted by COSA in partnership with

Welcome to the 2027 National Cancer Survivorship Conference

We are honoured to be co-convening the 2027 National Cancer Survivorship Conference hosted by COSA in partnership with Flinders University, the Australian Cancer Survivorship Centre (based at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre), and the VCCC Alliance.

We are excited to bring this important conference back to Adelaide where it all began in 2013 when Flinders University hosted their inaugural meeting.

The 2027 National Cancer Survivorship Conference will be held:

25-26 February 2027
Adelaide Convention Centre
Adelaide, South Australia

Together with the Program Committee, we have created an exciting program that showcases innovation in survivorship care, research, advocacy and policy.

With the theme CANCER SURVIVORSHIP: EFFECTIVE, EQUITABLE AND ENDURING we will focus on ensuring high quality and sustainable survivorship care for all people with cancer.

Professor Bogda Koczwara AM

Conference Co-Convenor

Professor Michael Jefford

Conference Co-Convenor

Plenary sessions include:

  • Doing less for more will present an opening debate to get us all thinking about the purpose and value of ‘follow up’ care, models, systems and sustainable care

  • Doing more with less will showcase how we can get more care to more people, without a proportionate increase in resources

  • The enduring effects of cancer on identity will examine identity changes through existential meaning-making, disrupted education and work trajectories, and the embodied impacts of cancer on sexuality, and intimacy

  • Equitable survivorship care in an unequal world will explore how quality cancer survivorship care can be delivered equitably in an increasingly unequal world

  • Precision survivorship: Is it nurture or nature or both? will examine the concept of precision survivorship from two distinct angles – molecular and behavioural / environmental

  • Priority populations will explore how cancer recovery is influenced by factors like culture, identity, geography, income, and pre-existing health conditions

  • When cancer and disability intersect will examine priorities for research, practice and policy at the intersection of survivorship and disability

  • Navigation, coordination and support will explore what’s working, where the gaps remain and how we can map a more sustainable path to living better with and beyond cancer

We are keen to ensure there are lots of opportunities for delegates to feature their work, so we hope you and your colleagues will submit your abstracts for consideration as oral and poster presentations. We welcome submissions from survivors themselves and those whose work is in partnership with survivors.

We hope that the Conference will prompt bold discussions and lively exchange of ideas among clinicians, researchers, policymakers, and consumers to truly ensure effective, equitable, enduring cancer survivorship care.

We look forward to seeing you in Adelaide.

Bogda and Michael

We are proud that the 2027 National Survivorship Conference has ‘Consumers Included’ status provided by Cancer Voices ensuring that the perspectives of patients, survivors, carers and other members of the public affected by cancer are part of the planning and program of the conference.