Oncology
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Health professionals can access our Referrals
Oncology focuses on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of people with cancer or suspected cancer. This includes reviewing symptoms, interpreting scans and pathology, confirming diagnoses, and planning treatment.
We care for and treat people with:
- Suspected or known malignancy
- Breast Cancer.
Exclusions
The following conditions/procedures are not routinely seen at Bayside Health - Regional (Bass Coast):
- Paediatrics <16years
- Sarcoma
- Head and Neck Cancers
- Brain Cancers
- Patients requiring symptom control only
- Familial Cancer/Cancer genetics
- Lymphoma, Leukemia and blood disorders.
How to access this service
Referral to this service can be made by your general practitioner (GP), another medical specialist or a healthcare professional, as well as hospital-based staff in the emergency department, inpatient wards and other areas of the hospital.
More information for health practitioners and referrers is available here:
Oncology Referral Guide:
DocumentReferral Form: MR-309 Outpatient specialist clinic referral:
Clinically recommended guidance and resources for Health Professionals in the Gippsland region are available through Gippsland Pathways.
Additional information
https://www.targetingcancer.com.au/
https://www.canceraustralia.gov.au/
What to bring to your appointment:
- Medicare card
- Health Care Card and/or concession card (if you have one)
- Private health insurance card (if applicable/if you want to use it)
- Adverse drug alert card (if you have one)
- Previous x-ray films, scans, ultrasounds or any other test results or reports
- Medicines you need to take while you are here
- List of medicines you are currently taking (or the boxes), including medicines you have bought without a prescription, such as herbal supplements and vitamins
- Glasses, hearing aid(s) and/or walking frame if needed.
