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Awards
COSA offers Best of the Best Awards for each of the Best of the Best Oral and Rapid Fire Oral Sessions at the COSA Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). Independent adjudicators award the prizes at the session based on the content, the importance of the research, and the quality of the presentation. The Best of the Best Oral Awards are $1,000 in each session.

To be eligible for an award you must:
2024 Best of the Best Oral Presentation Award recipients
Bishma Jayathilaka
Estimating rates of immune-related adverse events in an Australian state-wide hospital population
Belinda Sassé
Evaluating the Implementation of Multidisciplinary Team Plans in Metastatic Breast Cancer Management: A Prospective Analysis
Grace Gard
Personalised Care Plans for Patients with Rectal Cancer; registry data repurposed
Mettassa Zaro and Amy Brown
“Helping my mob” – embedding a First Nations research coordinator to improve First Nations engagement and recruitment
Marissa Mulcahy and Mollie Wilson
Implementing a First Nations Cancer Coordinator to Improve Cancer Outcomes and Enhance Cultural Safety for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community in Victoria
Peter D Baade
Understanding how the impact of cancer varies by geographic location: Insights from the new Australian Cancer Atlas 2.0
Alyssa Taglieri-Sclocchi
Rural cancer survivors’ perceived delays in seeking medical attention, diagnosis, and treatment: A qualitative study
Natalie Winter
Efficacy of an online mindfulness program (MindOnLine) to reduce fear of recurrence in people living with and beyond, breast, prostate or colorectal cancer: a randomized controlled trial
Cassandra Mazza
Reducing preventable emergency visits: Results from the Oncology Nurse Practitioner-led Rapid Access Clinic (RACE) service at a tertiary regional cancer centre
Rachel Campbell
Adapting a web-based intervention (RESTORE) to support self-management of cancer-related fatigue in people living with a brain tumour
Hayley T Dillon
Preventing Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant-Related Cardiovascular Dysfunction: The ALLO-Active Trial
2024 Best of the Best Rapid Fire Oral Presentation Awards
Jordan E Cohen
Current and future strategies in addressing the Unmet Need of Regional/Rural Early Phase Clinical Trials Access in Australia
Jordana McLoone
Examining the long-term financial toxicity of survivorship care for childhood brain cancer
Ashleigh Sharman
Understanding the financial burden of head and neck cancer as experienced by patients and their caregivers: a qualitative study
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