Analysing real-world costs and results of comprehensive cancer care to inform evidence-based health service interventions and improve outcomes for cancer patients.
The Cancer Health Services Research unit focuses on health outcomes for cancer patients by integrating multidisciplinary research findings and evidence-based interventions into health services. The unit has a strong research interest in data-science and data-linkage of large medical and administrative registries to be able to monitor the care provided to cancer patients across the care continuum. Clinical outcomes and cost analyses using linked data-sets do inform about the value of our services to patients and help rational decisions about improving our services mainly in hospital settings.
The unit’s world-class expertise in data-driven health services research is specifically applied to understand the value of molecular diagnostics, genomics and new cancer (immuno-) therapies.
Contact and more information
Professor Gang Chen
Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
gangchen@unimelb.edu.au