Women don’t talk about miscarriage- silence and secrecy means absence of support Meredith Temple-Smith #ASPOG19 abhi kumar The Royal Women’s Hospital We need to acknowledge women’s distress after miscarriage #miscarriage #womenshealth

Exciting work with the development of an infertility risk prediction tool, building a model from 24,685 records, sourced from 27 collaborators for young #breastcancer patients. abhi kumar The Royal Women’s Hospital #VCCCPsychOnc19

The masterful #fertility & decisionmaking expert A/Prof Michelle Peate #cosa19 #psychoOncologyGroup #PsyOnc

Wow! The latest FORECAST study by A/Prof Michelle Peate's team on developing a tool for fertility risk prediction is incredible - pooled dataset of >20,000 records - cancer vs infertile vs cancer populations! #COSA19 #ClinicalProfessionalDay COSA POCOG #psyOnc #OzOnc

.Dr Zobaida Edib presenting the #FoRECAsTStudy at #COSA19 about the need for personalised information about #infertility risk following #cancer - high level of international collaboration to meet a clinical need COSA COSA Survivorship #oncofertility #proudsupervisor

To build a tool that is going to be used by patients and clinicians #FoRECAsTStudy conducted a facilitator and barrier study: patients all like the idea of a fertility calculator Dr Zobaida Edib #COSA19 COSA COSA Survivorship #oncofertility #infertility #proudsupervisor

#FoRECAsTStudy facilitator & barriers: though clinicians liked the idea of a fertility calculator they didn't feel it was their responsibility Dr Zobaida Edib #COSA19 COSA COSA Survivorship #oncofertility #infertility #proudsupervisor

#FoRECAsTStudy facilitator & barriers: BCNs are key members of the #oncofertility care pathway as patients are often more comfortable in talking about #oncofertility with them Dr Zobaida Edib #COSA19 COSA COSA Survivorship #oncofertility #infertility #proudsupervisor

Presenting a meta-analyses of prognostic models for prediction ovarian function in young breast cancer patients after chemo Dr Zobaida Edib #COSA19 COSA COSA Survivorship #oncofertility #psyonc #emPoWeRUnit @UniMelbMDHS The Royal Women’s Hospital

And that’s a wrap #COSA19 - great program, had fun presenting (yep, finally reached the point where I enjoy it), got great feedback about #emPoWeRUnit research (& so did Dr Zobaida Edib), caught up with some amazing people, made new friends, won a best of the best, & came home to:

I wanted to say how proud I am of these #PhDCandidates who have taken the challenge of #SciCom through #twitter: Chloe Lim (she/her) Tam Bui Emma Carson Renée Bultijnck @CG_Maz Dr Zobaida Edib Joe Jabbour Chindhu S Dr Antonia Pearson @sarahratcliffe0 Sharing your work matters

Dr Zobaida Edib & A/Prof Michelle Peate presenting prognostic models for predicting ovarian function in young breast cancer patients after chemotherapy #SysRev #MA #BCSM #ayacsm #COSA19

#MareePasvanis presenting her #emPoWeRUnit project on priorities of women with #ovarianCancer at The Royal Women’s Hospital #researchweek - collab w Ovarian Cancer Aust - key msg: supports need to be tailored to the needs of pts & the younger women want fertility decision support @DrJenMarinoAus

Since we want to dvt a personalised infertility calculator (#FoRECAsT) that ppl will use Dr Zobaida Edib has interviewed pts & clinicians to identify the barriers & facilitators. key msg: all liked idea, pts unhappy w current disc, clinician responsibility unclear #emPoWeRUnit

#SherineSandhu presenting our pilot study for our #electiveeggfreezing #decisionaid #researchweek The Royal Women’s Hospital - key msg: the #DA was generally well received, did not cause serious worry or concern, improved knowledge & reduced uncertainty. Now updating in prep for RCT #emPoWeRUnit

#QinyingLan presenting her work on priorities in #menopause after #cancer #researchweek The Royal Women’s Hospital - key msg: women survivors have many long term symptoms after cancer, many young women are presenting at #MSAC, top priority hot flashes & night sweats @DrJenMarinoAus #emPoWeRUnit

#KateStern puts out a call to action for: 1. Protecting the ovary from treatment 2. improving in vitro maturation of eggs 3. reduce risk of tumor transmission in grafting 4. Sperm maturation from tissue 5. Using stem cells to make gametes #ARU2019 The Royal Women’s Hospital #oncofertility

Predicting the risk of infertility is challenging - so many factors to consider... A/Prof Antoinette Anazodo OAM MD PHD #oncofertility Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne The Royal Women’s Hospital @UniMelbMDHS #fertilitypreservation Watch this space - Dr Zobaida Edib is working on this #FoRECAsTStudy #emPoWeRUnit

How do we support patients and families to make the best decisions about #fertility after a #cancer Dx? Dr Michelle Peate sharing her wisdom and research in #oncofertility #decisionmaking. Kids Cancer Alliance @CanTeenAus Peter Mac Cancer Centre @UniMelbMDHS The Royal Women’s Hospital The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne

The other side of fertility is #menopause - my mentor #MarthaHickey talking about how to manage in #survivorship #oncofertility Dr Yasmin Jayasinghe The Royal Women’s Hospital The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne @UniMelbMDHS