Youth Cancer Service
How we can help you
The Sydney Youth Cancer Service is a specialised treatment and support service for adolescents and young adults with cancer, aged between 15 - 25 years and their families.
We recognise young people are faced with changes, challenges and developmental issues from the effects of cancer and cancer treatments particularly in the areas of:
- Future fertility
- Diet and nutrition
- Body development, body image and cognitive function
- Sex and sexuality
- Relationships
- Independence from family
- Impacts on school and university, work and peer groups.
Director, Youth Cancer Service
Dr Jessica Ryan
Clinical Nurse Consultant
Phone: 0400 474 691
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
How to find us
We are on the corner of High Street and Avoca Street in Randwick. The main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from level 2 of the High St entrance to Prince of Wales Hospital.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our services are delivered by a specialist team who meet regularly with a range of experts from different fields to provide age and tumour specific care and support for each person to ensure the best outcomes and quality of life.
The team is led by Head of Department Staff Specialist, Dr Jessica Ryan and her team which includes:
- Clinical Nurse Consultants (specialist nurses) 0400 474 691
- Social Worker
- Clinical Psychologists
Where is your care delivered
We have a dedicated space called the You Can Centre in the Cancer Survivorship Centre. It is an informal space to relax in when you are visiting the hospital or cancer centre.
The Sydney YCS is part of a network of Youth Cancer Service in NSW and across other states with funding provided by the Australian Government and State/ Territory health departments. Canteen, the national not-for-profit youth cancer agency, administers the Youth Cancer Services funding arrangements in each state and provides a range of support services to AYAs, their siblings and families.
You must have a referral letter from your doctor to be seen by Youth Cancer Service, please request your doctor send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we receive your completed referral we will send you a letter detailing your appointment date, time and what to bring.
If you would like to change or cancel an appointment, please telephone Sydney Youth Cancer Services on ph: 9382 5111.
Please bring:
- Your current Medicare card, any Health Care Card or Pensioner Concession Card
- Insurer details like workers compensation, public liability or third party
- Your Private Health Fund Membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if the doctor has requested you bring them
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the wait area
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the Interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an Interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Haematology
How we can help you
We provide treatments for you if you are living in the community and have cancer or blood disorders including:
- Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
- Leukaemias – acute and chronic
- Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders
- Myeloproliferative disorders such as polycythemia rubra vera and essential thrombocythaemia
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Anaemias
- Thalassemia, sickle cell diseases, and other haemoglobinopathies
- Venous thrombosis such as DVT, Pulmonary Emboli and other clots
- Bleeding disorders such as Haemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease, platelet disorders
- Iron deficiency anaemia, and iron-loading syndromes
- Blood count abnormalities.
Our services are for those staying in our hospital as well as those living in the community.
For those who need to stay in hospital, we have a Haematology and Oncology ward located on Level 4 North of the Acute Services Building. Here we can provide chemotherapy and other treatments. Chemotherapy is when we give you medicines that destroy cancer cells. We can also provide you high dose high dose chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (transplant of your own stem cells).
We provide treatments for people living in the community through our Haematology Oncology Day Centre. This is located on Level 4 of Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Building. Senior nursing staff liaise with specialist Doctors (Haematologists) to provide patients with day chemotherapy regimes, infusions, patient education, apheresis (removal of parts of your blood) and blood product support.
The Centre also provides adult apheresis services to the Randwick Hospitals campus, and can collect and store Haemapoietic Stem Cells.
Our Cancer Outreach Team can provide support to patients with malignant blood cancers in their homes.
Head of Haematology Department
Professor Mark Hertzberg
Nurse Unit Manager of Haematology and Oncology Day Centre
Jed Young
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
How to find us
If you have an appointment booked with one of our Haematology doctors, please come to our Haematology Clinics, Level 2, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
If you have a treatment booked in our Haematology Oncology Day Centre (HODC), Please come to Level 4, of the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
Our Haematology Oncology Ward is on Level 4 North, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our physicians
- Professor Mark Hertzberg
- Dr Timothy Brighton
- Dr Susan MacCallum
- Dr Carol Cheung
- Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber
- Dr Annmarie Bosco
- Professor Robert Lindeman
- Professor John Pimanda
Our specialised nurses
Clinical Nurse Consultant Haematology: Rachelle Frith
Clinical Nurse Consultant Blood and Thalassaemia: Leanne Crnek
Clinical Nurse Educator: Natalie Watson
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will send you a confirmation appointment letter, which will tell you where your appointment is located and what information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the waiting area
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will no impact in any way on the services we will provide.
Haematology
How we can help you
We provide treatments for you if you are living in the community and have cancer or blood disorders including:
- Hodgkin and Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas
- Leukaemias – acute and chronic
- Multiple myeloma and other plasma cell disorders
- Myeloproliferative disorders such as polycythemia rubra vera and essential thrombocythaemia
- Myelodysplastic syndromes
- Anaemias
- Thalassemia, sickle cell diseases, and other haemoglobinopathies
- Venous thrombosis such as DVT, Pulmonary Emboli and other clots
- Bleeding disorders such as Haemophilia, von Willebrand’s disease, platelet disorders
- Iron deficiency anaemia, and iron-loading syndromes
- Blood count abnormalities.
Our services are for those staying in our hospital as well as those living in the community.
For those who need to stay in hospital, we have a Haematology and Oncology ward located on Level 4 North of the Acute Services Building. Here we can provide chemotherapy and other treatments. Chemotherapy is when we give you medicines that destroy cancer cells. We can also provide you high dose high dose chemotherapy and Autologous Stem Cell Transplantation (transplant of your own stem cells).
We provide treatments for people living in the community through our Haematology Oncology Day Centre. This is located on Level 4 of Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Building. Senior nursing staff liaise with specialist Doctors (Haematologists) to provide patients with day chemotherapy regimes, infusions, patient education, apheresis (removal of parts of your blood) and blood product support.
The Centre also provides adult apheresis services to the Randwick Hospitals campus, and can collect and store Haemapoietic Stem Cells.
Our Cancer Outreach Team can provide support to patients with malignant blood cancers in their homes.
Head of Haematology Department
Professor Mark Hertzberg
Nurse Unit Manager of Haematology and Oncology Day Centre
Jed Young
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
How to find us
If you have an appointment booked with one of our Haematology doctors, please come to our Haematology Clinics, Level 2, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
If you have a treatment booked in our Haematology Oncology Day Centre (HODC), Please come to Level 4, of the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
Our Haematology Oncology Ward is on Level 4 North, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our physicians
- Professor Mark Hertzberg
- Dr Timothy Brighton
- Dr Susan MacCallum
- Dr Carol Cheung
- Dr Giselle Kidson-Gerber
- Dr Annmarie Bosco
- Professor Robert Lindeman
- Professor John Pimanda
Our specialised nurses
Clinical Nurse Consultant Haematology: Rachelle Frith
Clinical Nurse Consultant Blood and Thalassaemia: Leanne Crnek
Clinical Nurse Educator: Natalie Watson
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will send you a confirmation appointment letter, which will tell you where your appointment is located and what information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). There is also a television and magazines available in the waiting area
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will no impact in any way on the services we will provide.
Radiation Oncology
How we can help you
Radiation therapy involves the use of high-energy radiation therapy to control or kill tumour cells. It may be used to cure disease, reduce symptoms such as pain, and/or to prevent disease recurrence. Radiation therapy is an effective and important part of the management of a range of cancers, it can also be used for non-cancerous diseases. It may be given on its own or with other forms of treatment such as chemotherapy or surgery.
Most modern radiation therapy techniques focus on accurately targeting cancer cells. Which means they only affect the part of your body that requires treatment while sparing the normal cells. Like having a routine X-ray, radiation therapy is painless.
Types of radiation therapy treatments include;
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for malignant and non-malignant diseases
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI) for bone marrow transplants
- Total Skin Electron Therapy (TSET) for the treatment of cutaneous lymphomas
- Volumetric Modulated Radiation Therapy (VMAT)
- Brachytherapy service includes treatment of gynaecological disease
- Interstitial sites and choroidal melanoma using eye plaques
Your assessment, treatment planning and care are delivered at our clinics and specialist radiation therapy facilities in our NCCC Radiation Oncology Department.
Head of Department
Associate Professor Michael Jackson
Nurse Unit Manager
Sara Shaw
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 7:30am to 5.00pm
How to find us
We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Building (Building 3 on our campus map)
We are on the corner of High Street and Avoca Street in Randwick. The main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from level 2 of the High St entrance to Prince of Wales Hospital.
If you have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your medical specialist or your local family doctor to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter and all relevant test results. Once we have received a completed referral, we will send you a confirmation appointment letter, which will tell you where your appointment is located and what information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Medical referral if you have it, relevant pathology results
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card.
- Insurer details (for example: workers compensation, public liability or third party).
- Your Private Health Fund Membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund.
- Recent x-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable.
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example: a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). A television and magazines are available in the waiting area.
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450.
Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the Interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an Interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Radiation Oncology
How we can help you
Radiation therapy involves the use of high-energy radiation therapy to control or kill tumour cells. It may be used to cure disease, reduce symptoms such as pain, and/or to prevent disease recurrence. Radiation therapy is an effective and important part of the management of a range of cancers, it can also be used for non-cancerous diseases. It may be given on its own or with other forms of treatment such as chemotherapy or surgery.
Most modern radiation therapy techniques focus on accurately targeting cancer cells. Which means they only affect the part of your body that requires treatment while sparing the normal cells. Like having a routine X-ray, radiation therapy is painless.
Types of radiation therapy treatments include;
- Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT)
- Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT)
- Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) for malignant and non-malignant diseases
- Total Body Irradiation (TBI) for bone marrow transplants
- Total Skin Electron Therapy (TSET) for the treatment of cutaneous lymphomas
- Volumetric Modulated Radiation Therapy (VMAT)
- Brachytherapy service includes treatment of gynaecological disease
- Interstitial sites and choroidal melanoma using eye plaques
Your assessment, treatment planning and care are delivered at our clinics and specialist radiation therapy facilities in our NCCC Radiation Oncology Department.
Head of Department
Associate Professor Michael Jackson
Nurse Unit Manager
Sara Shaw
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 7:30am to 5.00pm
How to find us
We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Building (Building 3 on our campus map)
We are on the corner of High Street and Avoca Street in Randwick. The main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from level 2 of the High St entrance to Prince of Wales Hospital.
If you have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your medical specialist or your local family doctor to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter and all relevant test results. Once we have received a completed referral, we will send you a confirmation appointment letter, which will tell you where your appointment is located and what information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Medical referral if you have it, relevant pathology results
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card.
- Insurer details (for example: workers compensation, public liability or third party).
- Your Private Health Fund Membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund.
- Recent x-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable.
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example: a book, music player with headphones, crosswords). A television and magazines are available in the waiting area.
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450.
Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the Interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an Interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
Medical Oncology
How we can help you
- Chemotherapy - medicines that destroy cancer cells.
- Immunotherapy - a treatment that helps your bodies immune system fight cancer.
- Hormonal therapy for cancers that grow in response to your bodies hormones. This treatment uses synthetic hormones to block your bodies natural hormones. This helps to reduce the size and slow down the spread of the cancer.
- Targeted therapy - medicines that work on specific features of cancer cells to stop it growing and spreading.
Head of Department
Professor David Goldstein
Nurse Unit Manager
Jed Young
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
How to find us
The Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre is located in the Bright Alliance Building, corner of High and Avoca Street Randwick.
Our main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from the Prince of Wales Hospital main entrance, level 2 High Street Randwick.
If you have an appointment booked with one of our doctors, please come to our Medical Oncology Clinics for outpatients, Level 2, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
If you have a treatment booked in our Haematology Oncology Day Centre (HODC), Please come to Level 4, of the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
Our Haematology Oncology Ward is on Level 4 North, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our Doctors:
| Doctor's name | Position | Sub-Specialty | Clinic Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof David Goldstein | Head of Department - Medical Oncology | Gastrointestinal Cancer | Monday & Wednesday |
| Prof Michael Friedlander | Senior Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Gynaecology Cancer | Currently on leave |
| Prof Morteza Aghmesheh | Senior Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Gastrointestinal Cancer | Tuesday & Thursday |
| A/Prof Elizabeth Hovey | Senior Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Genitourinary, Central Nervous System Cancer | Monday fortnight, Tuesday & Friday |
| Dr Melvin Chin | Clinical Academic - Medical Oncology | Lung, Melanoma and Skin | Friday |
| Dr Yeh Chen Lee | Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Gynaecology Cancer, Sarcoma, Melanoma and Skin | Monday & Thursday |
| Dr Ben Kong | Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Lung, Head and Neck | Tuesday & Thursday |
| Dr Monica Tang | Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Breast, Sarcoma | Currently on leave |
| Dr Peeysei Kok | Locum - Medical Oncology | Gynaecology, Genitourinary cancer | Monday & Tuesday |
| Dr Omali Pitiyarachchi | Locum - Medical Oncology | Breast, Sarcoma | Monday & Wednesday |
| Dr Helen Ke | Locum - Medical Oncology | Breast | Wednesday & Thursday |
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will call you to make a time for your appointment and let you know any information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (eg workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords).
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will no impact in any way on the services we will provide. We will discuss with you any research projects that are relevant to your condition and whether you would like to participate.
Medical Oncology
How we can help you
- Chemotherapy - medicines that destroy cancer cells.
- Immunotherapy - a treatment that helps your bodies immune system fight cancer.
- Hormonal therapy for cancers that grow in response to your bodies hormones. This treatment uses synthetic hormones to block your bodies natural hormones. This helps to reduce the size and slow down the spread of the cancer.
- Targeted therapy - medicines that work on specific features of cancer cells to stop it growing and spreading.
Head of Department
Professor David Goldstein
Nurse Unit Manager
Jed Young
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm.
How to find us
The Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre is located in the Bright Alliance Building, corner of High and Avoca Street Randwick.
Our main public entrance is on Avoca Street. You may also enter the Cancer Centre from the Prince of Wales Hospital main entrance, level 2 High Street Randwick.
If you have an appointment booked with one of our doctors, please come to our Medical Oncology Clinics for outpatients, Level 2, Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
If you have a treatment booked in our Haematology Oncology Day Centre (HODC), Please come to Level 4, of the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre (Building 3 on our campus map)
Our Haematology Oncology Ward is on Level 4 North, Acute Services Building, Prince of Wales Hospital, (Building 30 on our campus map)
Our Doctors:
| Doctor's name | Position | Sub-Specialty | Clinic Days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof David Goldstein | Head of Department - Medical Oncology | Gastrointestinal Cancer | Monday & Wednesday |
| Prof Michael Friedlander | Senior Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Gynaecology Cancer | Currently on leave |
| Prof Morteza Aghmesheh | Senior Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Gastrointestinal Cancer | Tuesday & Thursday |
| A/Prof Elizabeth Hovey | Senior Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Genitourinary, Central Nervous System Cancer | Monday fortnight, Tuesday & Friday |
| Dr Melvin Chin | Clinical Academic - Medical Oncology | Lung, Melanoma and Skin | Friday |
| Dr Yeh Chen Lee | Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Gynaecology Cancer, Sarcoma, Melanoma and Skin | Monday & Thursday |
| Dr Ben Kong | Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Lung, Head and Neck | Tuesday & Thursday |
| Dr Monica Tang | Staff Specialist - Medical Oncology | Breast, Sarcoma | Currently on leave |
| Dr Peeysei Kok | Locum - Medical Oncology | Gynaecology, Genitourinary cancer | Monday & Tuesday |
| Dr Omali Pitiyarachchi | Locum - Medical Oncology | Breast, Sarcoma | Monday & Wednesday |
| Dr Helen Ke | Locum - Medical Oncology | Breast | Wednesday & Thursday |
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a suspected or confirmed cancer you may be referred by your local family doctor or a medical specialist to use our services. Please request your doctor to send us your referral letter together with all relevant test results.
Once we have received a completed referral, we will call you to make a time for your appointment and let you know any information you should bring with you.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 9382 5111.
- Current Medicare card or Veteran Affairs card
- Any Health Care Card, Pensioner Concession Card or Commonwealth Seniors Health Care Card
- Insurer details (eg workers compensation, public liability or third party)
- Your private health fund membership card if you are currently insured with a private health fund
- Recent X-rays or medical images and their reports, if applicable
- Activities to keep you entertained while waiting (for example, a book, music player with headphones, crosswords).
Please let us know if you need an interpreter. You can contact us telephoning the Translating and Interpreting Service (TIS) on 131 450. Tell the operator what language you speak and then ask the interpreter to set up a telephone conversation between you, an interpreter, and the healthcare professional you want to speak with.
We are a teaching hospital and student doctors or nurses may be involved and supervised by senior staff during your visit. You have the right to say no. If you do so, this will no impact in any way on the services we will provide. We will discuss with you any research projects that are relevant to your condition and whether you would like to participate.