The optimal cancer care pathways (OCPs) describe best practice cancer care. They are designed to promote a full understanding of the patient experience and to foster evidenced based, quality cancer care from the point of diagnosis onwards.
The resources identify specific steps, or critical points along the care pathway and the recommended care at each point.
Both detailed pathways and quick reference guides have been developed.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with cancer
Adolescents and young adults with cancer
Optimal Care Pathways by cancer type
- Acute leukaemia in children, adolescents and young adults (1st edition)
- Acute myeloid leukaemia (2nd edition)
- Breast cancer (2nd edition)
- Cancer of unknown primary (January 2020)
- Cervical cancer (January 2020)
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (1st edition)
- Chronic myeloid leukaemia (1st edition)
- Colorectal cancer (2nd edition)
- Endometrial cancer (2nd edition)
- Head and neck cancer (2nd edition)
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (2nd edition)
- High-grade glioma (2nd edition)
- Hodgkin and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (2nd edition)
- Keratinocyte cancer (basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma) (2nd edition)
- Low-grade lymphomas (1st edition)
- Lung cancer (2nd edition)
- Melanoma (2nd edition)
- Multiple Myeloma (1st edition)
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (1st edition)
- Neuroendocrine tumours (1st edition)
- Oesophagogastric cancer (2nd edition)
- Ovarian cancer (2nd edition)
- Pancreatic cancer (2nd edition)
- Prostate cancer (2nd edition)
- Sarcoma (bone and soft tissue sarcoma) (January 2020)
Quick reference guides by cancer type
- Acute leukaemia in children, adolescents and young adults (1st edition)
- Acute myeloid leukaemia (2nd edition)
- Breast cancer (2nd edition)
- Cancer of unknown primary (January 2020)
- Cervical cancer (January 2020)
- Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (1st edition)
- Chronic myeloid leukaemia (1st edition)
- Colorectal cancer (2nd edition)
- Endometrial cancer (2nd edition)
- Head and neck cancer (2nd edition)
- Hepatocellular carcinoma (2nd edition)
- High-grade glioma (2nd edition)
- Hodgkin and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas (2nd edition)
- Keratinocyte cancer (basal cell carcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma) (2nd edition)
- Low-grade lymphomas (1st edition)
- Lung cancer (2nd edition)
- Melanoma (2nd edition)
- Multiple Myeloma (1st edition)
- Myelodysplastic syndrome (1st edition)
- Neuroendocrine tumours (1st edition)
- Oesophagogastric cancer (2nd edition)
- Ovarian cancer (2nd edition)
- Pancreatic cancer (2nd edition)
- Prostate cancer (2nd edition)
- Sarcoma (January 2020)
Patient Resources: Your guides to best cancer care
These short guides help patients understand the optimal cancer care that should be provided at each step and can be used to complement the clinical OCPs. Carers, family and friends may also find them helpful.
The guides are located on an interactive web portal, with downloadable PDFs in English, plain English and translation into multiple languages.