ACCHO | Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
A-GLIMMER | Australian Genetics and Life Insurance Moratorium: Monitoring the Effectiveness and Response |
AIHW | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
ALK | anaplastic lymphoma kinase |
ALLG | Australasian Leukaemia Lymphoma Group |
CALD | Culturally and Linguistically Diverse |
CDF | Cancer Drugs Fund |
Closing the Gap | National Agreement on the Closing the Gap |
CT | Computed Tomography |
DIPG | Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma |
GP | general practitioner |
HTA | Health Technology Assessment |
HTA Review | Health Technology Assessment Policy and Methods Review |
MAP | Managed Access Program |
MBS | Medicare Benefits Schedule |
MoST | Molecular Screen and Therapeutics |
MRFF | Medical Research Future Fund |
MRI | Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
MSAC | Medical Services Advisory Committee |
MTOP | Medical Treatment Overseas Program |
NACCHO | National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
NED | No Evidence of Disease |
NET | Neuroendocrine tumour |
NHMRC | National Health and Medical Research Council |
NIAA | National Indigenous Australians Agency |
NICE | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence |
NICE framework | National Institute for Health and Care Excellence real-world evidence framework |
NOSS | National One Stop Shop |
NRHA | National Rural Health Alliance |
PATS | Patient Assisted Travel Schemes |
PBAC | Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee |
PBS | Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme |
PET | Positron Emission Tomography |
PJCCFS | Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services |
PLANET | PLAnning for optimal treatment of NETs |
PrOSPeCT | Precision Oncology Screening Platform Enabling Clinical Trials program |
R&D | research and development |
RACGP | Royal Australian College of General Practitioners |
the Atlas | Australian Cancer Atlas |
the committee | Senate Community Affairs References Committee |
the department | Department of Health and Aged Care |
the Minister | The Hon Mark Butler MP |
the Plan | Australian Cancer Plan |
the Select Committee | Select Committee into Funding for Research into Cancers with Low Survival Rates |
the Strategy | Medical Workforce Reform Advisory Committee’s National Medical Workforce Strategy |
VCCC | Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre |
VHL | Von Hippel-Lindau disease |
ZERO Childhood Cancer Program | Childhood Cancer National Precision Medicine Program |