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Haematologist Dr Marsali Maclean joins Ballarat Cancer Care

We are pleased to announce palliative care physician Dr Russell Pearce will be joining our team in February 2025.

We are excited to announce Dr Tishya Indran will be joining our team as of 18th September 2024. 

The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) has approved a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine for people with weakened immune systems. People aged 18 years or older with weakened immune system who received a 3-dose primary course of the COVID-19 vaccine are now recommended to receive the fourth dose ≥ 3 months after their third dose. This is expected to improve protection against symptomatic infection, serious illness, or death from COVID-19 infection.

The Government and the Medical advisory group (ATAGI) have release new recommendations last week for individuals who are severely immunocompromised in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine. These recommendations will affect some (but not all) of our patients. As always, we are happy to discuss any of the recommendations further with all of our patients.

In the last few months, I have been inundated with many questions regarding COVID-19 vaccination and blood clots from patients and other health practitioners. In this article, I have compiled these frequently asked questions.

Despite a global pandemic, new data relating to oncology treatments continues to be published, and it seems that this is increasingly translating into improved drug access here in Australia.

In light of recent reports of clotting events following Astra Zeneca (AZ) vaccine in Europe - we have been frequently asked questions regarding the safety of AZ vaccine in patients with previous clot events and/or blood problems

Two vaccines against the coronavirus have now been approved for use in Australia, role-out of the vaccine begins this week in high-risk populations.