Hereditary Cancer Centre
How we can help you
We provide a diagnostic and genetic counselling service for adults and children who have, or are at high risk of hereditary cancers and tumours. We also see some people who have or are at high risk of a hereditary endocrine tumour. We will discuss your risk of cancer and whether genetic testing is helpful for your health care.
You may have an appointment by either in person, video consultation (called Telehealth) or by telephone.
Head of Department
Dr Lesley Andrews
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm
How to find us
We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance 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.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our team consists of:
Medical
- Dr Lesley Andrews (Head of Department)
- Associate Professor Kathy Tucker AO (Clinical Geneticist Clinical Lead)
Genetic Counsellors
- Rachel Williams (Senior Network Clinical Lead)
- Meera Warby
- April Morrow
- Nicole Cousens
- Tanya Dwarte
- Catherine Speechly
Research Nurse
- Leon Botes
If you are concerned about your own diagnosis of cancer or your family history, speak to your doctor for a referral to the Hereditary Cancer Centre.
Please ask your doctor to send us your referral letter. We will also ask you to complete a registration form. You can do this now by completing this and sending it in with your referral. Otherwise, our administration staff will contact you to complete this with you.
Once we have received your referral, a member of our staff will contact you to make your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5107.
You will be asked about your personal medical history and your family history of cancer. Our staff will assess your risk and whether genetic testing could help your family. We also give advice about screening and ways to reduce cancer risk.
If you are an Australian Medicare or Veteran Affairs card holder, your appointment will be bulk billed.
- 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). 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.
Our Centre is involved in national and international research to improve care for people with an inherited cancer genetic condition. Your doctor, genetic counsellor or nurse may talk with you about research at your appointment.
We are a teaching hospital and medical trainees, student doctors, genetic counsellors and 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 not change your care in any way.
Hereditary Cancer Centre
How we can help you
We provide a diagnostic and genetic counselling service for adults and children who have, or are at high risk of hereditary cancers and tumours. We also see some people who have or are at high risk of a hereditary endocrine tumour. We will discuss your risk of cancer and whether genetic testing is helpful for your health care.
You may have an appointment by either in person, video consultation (called Telehealth) or by telephone.
Head of Department
Dr Lesley Andrews
Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm
How to find us
We are located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance 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.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Our team consists of:
Medical
- Dr Lesley Andrews (Head of Department)
- Associate Professor Kathy Tucker AO (Clinical Geneticist Clinical Lead)
Genetic Counsellors
- Rachel Williams (Senior Network Clinical Lead)
- Meera Warby
- April Morrow
- Nicole Cousens
- Tanya Dwarte
- Catherine Speechly
Research Nurse
- Leon Botes
If you are concerned about your own diagnosis of cancer or your family history, speak to your doctor for a referral to the Hereditary Cancer Centre.
Please ask your doctor to send us your referral letter. We will also ask you to complete a registration form. You can do this now by completing this and sending it in with your referral. Otherwise, our administration staff will contact you to complete this with you.
Once we have received your referral, a member of our staff will contact you to make your appointment.
If you need to change or cancel your appointment, please call us on 02 9382 5107.
You will be asked about your personal medical history and your family history of cancer. Our staff will assess your risk and whether genetic testing could help your family. We also give advice about screening and ways to reduce cancer risk.
If you are an Australian Medicare or Veteran Affairs card holder, your appointment will be bulk billed.
- 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). 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.
Our Centre is involved in national and international research to improve care for people with an inherited cancer genetic condition. Your doctor, genetic counsellor or nurse may talk with you about research at your appointment.
We are a teaching hospital and medical trainees, student doctors, genetic counsellors and 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 not change your care in any way.
Palliative Care
How we can help you
Palliative care can improve symptoms and help you and your family to achieve the best possible quality of life throughout your illness. Help is available to anyone with any life-limiting illness, not only cancer.We can help you to navigate through our complex care system, ensuring you have the key information you need. We will talk with you about your feelings, values and wishes for your care.
Our aim is to improve your quality of life while you face problems associated with your life-limiting illness. We aim to prevent and relieve your suffering by carefully treating your pain and other problems, be it physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Palliative care is not just about caring for patients who are dying. The majority of our work is dedicated to improving the control of your symptoms, particularly if you have advanced disease, including advanced cancers. We can also help to make cancer treatment more tolerable.
If your family members are finding illness difficult to cope with, our team is available to help at any stage of your illness.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm
After hours
call switchboard 9382 2222
How to find us
Level 2, Nelune Comprehsive Cancer Centre at the Bright Building Corner of High and Avoca Streets Prince of Wales Hospital, (building 3 on our campus map)
Outpatient clinics are run Tuesday-Thursday by appointment and located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance 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.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Your care team consists of specialists, registrars, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dieticians, psychologists and volunteers provide assessment, advice, support and care planning in partnership with your treating specialists, general practitioners, even at home. The Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, The Prince of Wales Hospital and St Vincent’s have partnered to deliver a comprehensive and coordinated palliative care service across the Randwick district.
Staff Specialists:
- Dr Helen Herz
- Dr Meg Sands
The Palliative Care service includes medical and nursing specialists who see patients on the Randwick Hospitals Campus including Prince of Wales Hospital, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, The Royal Hospital for Women, and Sydney Children’s Hospital, as well as in the home, who are referred. There is also a Nurse Practitioner who sees patients in residential aged care facilities.
Quality of life can be impacted by many different causes, including symptoms of pain, nausea, breathlessness and others. The impact of treatment can also lead to uncertainty and concern about the future. Many people living with advanced illnesses can benefit from palliative care. There is published evidence that seeing the palliative care team can even help patients with cancer to live longer and better.
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, emphysema, heart or kidney failure 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 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.
- A list of your current medications.
- 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 by 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.
At times our department participates in clinical research, and you may be asked if you would like to participate in a trial or study. You have a right to say no without there being any impact on your care.
Palliative Care
How we can help you
Palliative care can improve symptoms and help you and your family to achieve the best possible quality of life throughout your illness. Help is available to anyone with any life-limiting illness, not only cancer.We can help you to navigate through our complex care system, ensuring you have the key information you need. We will talk with you about your feelings, values and wishes for your care.
Our aim is to improve your quality of life while you face problems associated with your life-limiting illness. We aim to prevent and relieve your suffering by carefully treating your pain and other problems, be it physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Palliative care is not just about caring for patients who are dying. The majority of our work is dedicated to improving the control of your symptoms, particularly if you have advanced disease, including advanced cancers. We can also help to make cancer treatment more tolerable.
If your family members are finding illness difficult to cope with, our team is available to help at any stage of your illness.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm
After hours
call switchboard 9382 2222
How to find us
Level 2, Nelune Comprehsive Cancer Centre at the Bright Building Corner of High and Avoca Streets Prince of Wales Hospital, (building 3 on our campus map)
Outpatient clinics are run Tuesday-Thursday by appointment and located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance 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.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Your care team consists of specialists, registrars, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dieticians, psychologists and volunteers provide assessment, advice, support and care planning in partnership with your treating specialists, general practitioners, even at home. The Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, The Prince of Wales Hospital and St Vincent’s have partnered to deliver a comprehensive and coordinated palliative care service across the Randwick district.
Staff Specialists:
- Dr Helen Herz
- Dr Meg Sands
The Palliative Care service includes medical and nursing specialists who see patients on the Randwick Hospitals Campus including Prince of Wales Hospital, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, The Royal Hospital for Women, and Sydney Children’s Hospital, as well as in the home, who are referred. There is also a Nurse Practitioner who sees patients in residential aged care facilities.
Quality of life can be impacted by many different causes, including symptoms of pain, nausea, breathlessness and others. The impact of treatment can also lead to uncertainty and concern about the future. Many people living with advanced illnesses can benefit from palliative care. There is published evidence that seeing the palliative care team can even help patients with cancer to live longer and better.
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, emphysema, heart or kidney failure 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 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.
- A list of your current medications.
- 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 by 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.
At times our department participates in clinical research, and you may be asked if you would like to participate in a trial or study. You have a right to say no without there being any impact on your care.
Palliative Care
How we can help you
Palliative care can improve symptoms and help you and your family to achieve the best possible quality of life throughout your illness. Help is available to anyone with any life-limiting illness, not only cancer.We can help you to navigate through our complex care system, ensuring you have the key information you need. We will talk with you about your feelings, values and wishes for your care.
Our aim is to improve your quality of life while you face problems associated with your life-limiting illness. We aim to prevent and relieve your suffering by carefully treating your pain and other problems, be it physical, psychosocial and spiritual.
Palliative care is not just about caring for patients who are dying. The majority of our work is dedicated to improving the control of your symptoms, particularly if you have advanced disease, including advanced cancers. We can also help to make cancer treatment more tolerable.
If your family members are finding illness difficult to cope with, our team is available to help at any stage of your illness.
Opening hours
Monday to Friday 8.00am to 5.00pm
After hours
call switchboard 9382 2222
How to find us
Level 2, Nelune Comprehsive Cancer Centre at the Bright Building Corner of High and Avoca Streets Prince of Wales Hospital, (building 3 on our campus map)
Outpatient clinics are run Tuesday-Thursday by appointment and located in the Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre within the Bright Alliance 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.
Information about how to get to our Randwick campus
Your care team consists of specialists, registrars, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, dieticians, psychologists and volunteers provide assessment, advice, support and care planning in partnership with your treating specialists, general practitioners, even at home. The Nelune Comprehensive Cancer Centre, The Prince of Wales Hospital and St Vincent’s have partnered to deliver a comprehensive and coordinated palliative care service across the Randwick district.
Staff Specialists:
- Dr Helen Herz
- Dr Meg Sands
The Palliative Care service includes medical and nursing specialists who see patients on the Randwick Hospitals Campus including Prince of Wales Hospital, Prince of Wales Private Hospital, The Royal Hospital for Women, and Sydney Children’s Hospital, as well as in the home, who are referred. There is also a Nurse Practitioner who sees patients in residential aged care facilities.
Quality of life can be impacted by many different causes, including symptoms of pain, nausea, breathlessness and others. The impact of treatment can also lead to uncertainty and concern about the future. Many people living with advanced illnesses can benefit from palliative care. There is published evidence that seeing the palliative care team can even help patients with cancer to live longer and better.
If you live in the South East Sydney region and have a life-limiting illness such as cancer, emphysema, heart or kidney failure 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 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.
- A list of your current medications.
- 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 by 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.
At times our department participates in clinical research, and you may be asked if you would like to participate in a trial or study. You have a right to say no without there being any impact on your care.
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.
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.
![Radiation Therapy at Prince of Wales Hospital](/sites/default/files/2018-07/banner02-860x400.jpg)
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.