CST membership

Membership

We welcome membership applications from health professionals, researchers, and consumers interested in improving the quality of life of people with cancer. Membership is free and does not need to be renewed annually. The membership application only takes a few minutes to complete.

In addition to CST membership, you can apply for PaCCSC membership. You can apply for membership of CST, PaCCSC, or both on one application form, which you can access via a link at the end of this page. 

Your membership will allow you to proactively contribute to improving the evidence base for better cancer symptom management. We aim to broaden the scope of current cancer symptom research. 

To apply for membership, click the link at the end of the page and complete the membership application, which will require a proposer and seconder to nominate you. If you need help identifying nominators, please email to cst@uts.edu.au.

Membership benefits

Collaboration and research support

We provide high-quality support and mentoring through:

• clinical trial support from the IMPACCT Trials Coordination Centre (ITCC)
• workshopping your ideas with experienced clinical trialists
• writing support for protocols, grants, and ethics submissions
• feedback from the Scientific Advisory Committee
• access to our membership network
• access to the IMPACCT Consumer Advisory Group (CAG)

News and Events

You will have access to learning and opportuntities to present your ideas for feedback and expert advice through:

• PaCCSC & CST Research Forum
• Concept development workshops
• PaCCSC & CST Seminar/Webinar series

You will receive:

• PaCCSC & CST Research quarterly newsletter
• Invitations to events of interest – internal and external
• Invitations to participate/collaborate in research

Committees

We offer opportunities to:

• present new research ideas to the Scientific Advisory Committee
• become a committee member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Management Advisory Committee, Qualitative Research Committee, or Symptom Node Subcommittees (by expression of interest)

COSA membership

CST members are entitled to a discounted membership to the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA). Other benefits include:

• access to education programs and network
• updates via ‘Cancer in the News’, and
• discounted registration for the COSA Annual Scientific Meeting.
   

Current members

We appreciate your support in helping to build a diverse membership community that shares skills and knowledge that contribute to improving cancer symptom management. If you have the opportunity to promote CST membership, please feel free to use the below slide.

CST membership (PPT, 597KB)

Confidentiality

Maintaining members' confidentiality around their research is important to us. Because we share ideas and information about research currently underway in our communications and at events, we require all members to sign a confidentiality agreement.

The agreement is one of mutual obligation between the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and you that allows both parties to share ideas freely at events and through other communications. When you become a member, we will send you a confidentiality agreement to sign and return.

Membership criteria

We welcome membership applications from people in Australia and overseas who are interested in palliative care and cancer symptom clinical trials, including: 

• Consumer advocates and community members including those from under-represented populations including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities
• Doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals
• Researchers who are active in palliative care and cancer symptom research including early- and mid-career researchers
• Other professionals who are interested in clinical trials including health economists, biostatisticians, and industry representatives

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