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MILDURA HEALTH ICON CANCER CENTRE - TWELVE MONTHS OF IMPACT
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Eighteen months on from the official opening, the Mildura Health Icon Cancer Centre is planning to extend its services, as data illustrates the benefits the Centre is delivering. Since its doors opened in April 2023, providing public radiation treatment, delivered by Icon Cancer Centre and private medical oncology delivered by Mildura Health Private Hospital (MHPH), the Centre has cared for over 372 patients on their radiation treatment journey, with the leading forms of cancer requiring treatment being breast, genitourinary and skin. Almost ten per cent of these patients resided more than one-hundred kilometres from Mildura, and that number is expected to grow. MALE 57% FEMALE 43%
Underscoring this, MHPH Medical Oncology Department has reported a fifty per cent increase in admissions over the past twelve-months. Accessing treatment locally has saved patients a combined travel total of 2.5 million kilometres, reducing costs and the disruption to their lives. 0 1 KILOMETRES OF PATIENT TRAVEL SAVED WHERE OUR PATIENTS COME FROM From the outset, Mildura Health, Icon Cancer Centre, and the Mildura Base Public Hospital have worked together with the Victorian Government Department of Health, with a shared vision for cancer care in this region. Collectively, we are committed to ensuring most radiation therapy patients in Mildura and surrounds can access treatment locally, because we know that eliminating the need to travel for treatment is a critical component in ensuring better outcomes for patients. We are proud that we are offering patients options that are more on par with metropolitan areas; they can access world-leading treatment, whilst continuing to enjoy the comfort of their own home, the reassurance of routine, 2500000 VIC
and the support of their family and friends. Providing a seamless service, so our patients and their families can’t tell where one service ends, and another begins. MHICC is a wonderful example of multiple organisations putting patients first, to deliver optimal care, close to home. In response to the rising number of patients seeking treatment at the MHICC and to prepare for the introduction of new services, MHPH has been developing its workforce capacity, recruiting several skilled oncology nurses, and planning for an increase in our number of specialists. Our aim is to provide a holistic model of high-quality care and part of that will be the Dr. Julie Zrna Centre which will offer accommodation for patients outside Mildura, receiving cancer treatment here. Not a day goes by without someone telling us how much they appreciate the Centre being here. Given what has already been achieved, a future in which people living in this region can access a full suite of cancer treatment locally, is closer than ever.
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