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Family Cancer Centres

What do Family Cancer Centres provide? 

They provide counselling and information for families with a history of cancer on: Inheriting cancer, individual risk, screening and cancer risk reduction strategies and provide genetic testing where appropriate.

When to refer patients to the centres? 

The types of families referred to a clinic are:

  • Families with three or more individuals with a specific type of cancer (often breast, ovarian or bowel cancer). 
  • Individuals with multiple cancers or cancers diagnoses at an unusually young age.

Melbourne’s Family Cancer Centres

Service Provider
Contact details
Referral Process
The Royal Melbourne Hospital Familial Cancer Centre
The RMH,
Grattan Street,
Parkville, 3050
 
Tel: (03) 9342 7151
Fax: (03) 9342 4287
 
Fill in the referral form and give it to your patient:
 
GP is then required to write a referral letter to the specified specialist (on the referral form) and fax, post or email it to the familial cancer centre.
 
Austin Health Genetics Service
Austin Hospital
Studley Road,
Heidelberg, 3084
 
Tel: (03) 9496 3027
Fax: (03) 9496 5123
Send a referral letter to Professor Martin Delatycki, Director, Clinical Geneticist and Paediatrician via fax or mail. 
The Peter Mac Familial Cancer Centre
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,
St Andrew’s Place,
East Melbourne, 3000
 
Tel: (03) 9656 1199
Fax: (03) 9656 1539
 
The Southern Health Familial Cancer Centre
Southern Health / Monash Medical Centre,
246 Clayton Road,
Clayton, 3168
 
Tel: (03) 9594 2009
Fax: (03) 9594 6022
Fax a referral letter addressed to Southern Health Familial Cancer Centre with the patient’s date of birth, contact details and address.

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