Welcome to GAIN Inc

GAIN stands for Gynaecological Awareness Information Network, and is located in the Perth suburb of Subiaco, in the state of Western Australia. If this is your first visit to this website, please make yourself at home, and we hope you enjoy your stay. Please scroll down for more information.

'Vulva Awareness Day'

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Photos from this very successful event

Pap Smear Express Story and Photos

HPV vaccination

Young Australian women aged 18 - 26 years, and girls aged between 12/13 - 17 years who have not received the vaccine at school, are advised:

The HPV catch-up program finishes on the 30 June 2009, so to be eligible for the free vaccine, you must have started the course with the first dose taken on or before 30 June 2009, and complete all 3 doses by 31 December 2009.

The "free offer" does not end on the 31 December 2009, unless you have already started your course of vaccination, on or before the 30 June 2009!

A call for consumers to assist with a new research project:

“A nurse led psychosocial intervention with peer support to reduce psychosocial needs in women with gynaecological cancer”

This project aims to develop and pilot test the effectiveness of a nurse-led psychosocial intervention with peer support to reduce anxiety, psychosocial needs, psychosexual difficulties and symptom distress of women receiving radiotherapy with curative intent for gynaecological cancer.

We are currently developing and refining the psychosocial program and we are looking for some consumers to join a consumer working party. Consumer working party members will be consulted via post, email, and/or phone. They will be asked to review documents, and give feedback as to the relevance and acceptability of the program content and format. We anticipate that it will take no more than 10 hours of time over a two year period.

We are looking for women who have been treated with radiotherapy to the pelvis for a gynaecological cancer (i.e. ovary, endometrium, cervix, vulva and vagina), and/or their partners or carers.

If you are interested, please contact:

Kerith Sharkey (project co-ordinator)

Department of Nursing and Supportive Care Research

Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

03 9656 3643

kerith.sharkey@petermac.org

Welcome to GAIN Inc

GAIN stands for Gynaecological Awareness Information Network, and is located in the Perth suburb of Subiaco, in the state of Western Australia. If this is your first visit to this website, please make yourself at home, and we hope you enjoy your stay. Please scroll down for more information.

HPV vaccination

Young Australian women aged 18 - 26 years, and girls aged between 12/13 - 17 years who have not received the vaccine at school, are advised:

The HPV catch-up program finishes on the 30 June 2009, so to be eligible for the free vaccine, you must have started the course with the first dose taken on or before 30 June 2009, and complete all 3 doses by 31 December 2009.

The "free offer" does not end on the 31 December 2009, unless you have already started your course of vaccination, on or before the 30 June 2009!

A call for consumers to assist with a new research project:

Media Alerts April 2009:

Medicare Australia now offers a range of on-line services - you need to register and you will be sent a PIN. More...

The Medical Journal of Australia publishes article on making sense of differing bowel cancer screening guidelines. More...

A very academic article on current research published by the Medical Journal of Australia on the depressive effects of chronic pain. More...

More media alerts in our "News Archive"

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This page last up-dated Sun, 11, April 2009 22:37:39