Overview
Your care and experience of gynaecological oncology may involve:
- diagnosis and treatment
- complex surgery
- evaluation and treatment of abnormal pap smears (laser/Lletz/surgical treatment and local and general anaesthetic)
- colposcopy
- chemotherapy
- day surgery
- outpatient clinics
- private consulting
- consultants available to medical staff and practitioners to discuss clinical problems
- case management teleconferencing.
Getting here
Find us at:
163 Studley Road
Heidelberg Victoria 3084
For more information on getting here, visit Mercy Hospital for Women .
Location details
Level 6
On-site signage and indicators
Look for the Gynaecological Oncology signs on-site.
Opening hours
The Gynaecological Oncology office is open:
Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm
Department medical cover 24 hours a day via office in hours, and switchboard after hours.
Your appointment
More information
Team Composition
Throughout your experience, you may be supported by:
- gynaecological oncologists
- medical oncologists
- radiation oncologists
- oncology nurses
- physiotherapists
- pharmacists
- psychologists
- dietitians
- pastoral carers
- social workers
- interpreters.
For health professionals
The Gynaecological Oncology Unit is a multidisciplinary unit providing comprehensive care to women with pre-invasive and malignant gynaecological conditions.
Our referral instructions and templates page explains how to refer to Mercy Health and provides you with the latest referral forms.
The unit offers services in:
- diagnosis and treatment of gynaecological malignancy
- complex gynaecological surgery
- complex pelvic surgery
- private consulting
- evaluation and treatment of abnormal pap smears
(laser/Lletz/surgical treatment and local and general anaesthetic) - colposcopy
- chemotherapy
- day surgery
- outpatient clinics
- consultants available to medical staff and practitioners to discuss clinical problems
- case management teleconferencing.
Procedural information
Clinical information:
- presenting symptoms
- examination findings
- comorbidities
- relevant past history.
Investigations and results:
- CT/Medical Imaging
- ultrasound
- pap Smear
- blood tests e.g. tumour markers FBE, U&E, LFT.
Additional contact details
Contacts
For patients
Main Reception
- Phone numbers:
0384584000
03 8458 4444
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week. - Address: Level 1
163 Studley Road
Heidelberg Victoria 3084
- About:
Main reception number with options to be transferred to a department, patient or staff member.
For health professionals
HealthPathways Melbourne
- Email address: info@healthpathwaysmelbourne.org.au
- Website: HealthPathways Melbourne
- About:
HealthPathways Melbourne provides clinicians with a single website to access clinical and referral pathways, and resources. Pathways are created by local GPs, working in partnership with specialists, nurses, allied health and other health professionals.
Mercy Health recommends clinicians to access HealthPathways Melbourne for guidance in assessing, managing and referring for patient conditions (login required).
Referrals to outpatient clinics at Mercy Health will be triaged against clinical information and investigations based on these guidelines.
Referrals that do not meet the required clinical information and investigations will not be accepted.
HealthPathways Melbourne is available for free to health professionals working in the North Western Melbourne and Eastern Melbourne Primary Health Network catchments.
Email HealthPathways to request access or if you need to confirm your username and password.
Statewide Referral Criteria for Specialist Clinics - Victoria
- Website: Statewide Referral Criteria
- About:
The Department of Health and Human Services has developed statewide referral criteria to assist GPs and clinicians referring patients to specialist clinics. These referral criteria have been developed to improve access to specialist clinics in public hospitals by improving the quality and appropriateness of referrals.
Mercy Hospital for Women Multidisciplinary Meetings - North Eastern Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service
- Website: Mercy Hospital for Women MDMs
- About:
In a multidisciplinary care setting, patients with cancer receive treatment and support from a number of health professionals and services. A multidisciplinary team approach enables all of a patient’s needs to be considered when formulating and recommended a treatment plan. One forum for such discussions is Cancer Multidisciplinary Meeting (MDM).
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