Clinical support
Support for clinicans
Queensland Youth Cancer Service (QYCS) supports clinicians caring for young people with cancer.
Support is available regardless of whether the young person is receiving care at a partner site, satellite site, public hospital or private service in Queensland.
QYCS can provide:
- medical consultation and liaison advice
- psychosocial consultation and support
- information about age appropriate care
- information about clinical trial access
- multidisciplinary case conferencing
- care coordination support across treating teams
- information about Queensland and national AYA cancer resources and guidelines
For clinicians working outside the 5 partner site hospitals, QYCS can provide support via telehealth.
Connecting a young person to QYCS enables access to specialist consultation, coordinated care planning and multidisciplinary support.
Support for general practitioners
GPs play an important role in supporting young people as care transitions beyond active cancer treatment.
QYCS can support GPs by:
- providing survivorship care plans and treatment summaries
- offering consultation and liaison advice
- supporting long term follow up care
- connecting young people with community, psychosocial and allied health supports
- supporting engagement with primary care
GPs can refer a young person to QYCS. If a young person is already connected with QYCS, no additional referral is required.