The Clinical Oncology Society of Australia (COSA) is a multidisciplinary society for health professionals whose work involves the care of cancer patients. An Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) is held each November, and the 2019 ASM was held in sunny Adelaide, South Australia, at the Adelaide Convention Centre. The theme for the ASM was ‘Putting Precision and Personalisation into Practice’ and focussed on urogenital cancers, age and gender in cancer practice, and digital health in cancer.

In 2014, I gained an exciting job in a cancer center in Accra-Ghana. I was a young newly qualified pharmacist, and cancer was an emerging disease trend in Ghana and across Africa. I felt truly privileged to be amongst the few Pharmacists helping to combat this disease state. Being the only female Pharmacist in the practice at the time was also such a privilege.

By Esin Aysel Kandemir, Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency

I, Atalay Mulu Fentie, have been working as a clinical pharmacist and oncology pharmacy service case team coordinator since September, 2013 at Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital and lecturer at School of Pharmacy, Addis Ababa University since June, 2017. My role is doing cancer related research projects, teaching pharmacy students, supervising nurses doing chemo-admixture and providing accurate and up-to-date evidence based information to other health care team members during major clinical rounds; which all would impact the clinical decision process and even patient treatment outcomes.