About Cancer Council’s Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines bring together the best available evidence to inform recommendations for the prevention and diagnosis of disease and treatment for the care of patients.
Cancer Council Australia develops and disseminates high quality, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and management of cancer, to inform clinical practice and ultimately improve cancer management in Australia.
Established in 1994, first under the banner of the Australian Cancer Network and then Clinical Guidelines Network, Cancer Council Australia has significant experience in producing cancer-related guidelines for the Australian health context.
For the development of guidelines, Cancer Council Australia calls on a network of more than 70 clinical and interest groups, and collaborates with the Clinical Oncology Society of Australia and many other organisations to draw upon their members' clinical expertise to produce clinical practice guidelines.
Our guidelines
Baretts Oesophagus clinical guidelines
National cervical screening clinical guidelines
Colorectal cancer clinical guidelines
Endometrial cancer clinical guidelines
Lung cancer treatment clinical guidelines
Lung cancer prevention and diagnosis clinical guidelines
Melanoma clinical guidelines
Keratinocyte cancer clinical guidelines
Teleoncology clinical guidelines
Surveillance colonoscopy clinical guidelines
Early detection of cancer in adolescents and young adults clinical guidelines
Psychosocial management of AYAs diagnosed with cancer clinical guidelines
PSA testing clinical guidelines
Neuroendocrine Neoplasms (NENs) clinical guidelines
Head and neck cancer clinical guidelines
Management of communication and swallowing in childhood brain tumour or leukaemia clinical guidelines
Cancer therapy medication safety clinical guidelines
Cancer pain management in adults clinical guidelines
Fertility preservation for people with cancer clinical guidelines
Hepatocellular carcinoma clinical guidelines
Frequently asked questions
Due to the dynamic nature of the site that allows us to update content more regularly than printed documents, Cancer Council Australia cannot produce or offer full versions of the guidelines as downloadable documents. This practice supports version control and ensures users know they are accessing the most up to date version of the Guidelines.
Older guidelines and resources may be available as reference documents, however the evidence used for any recommendations may be out of date once the guidelines have been rescinded.
If you are looking for a particular version of a guideline that is not available below, please contact guidelines@cancer.org.au.
If you would like to use content from our clinical practice guidelines site, and it is considered fair dealing then all that is required is correct citation of the material.
More information on fair dealing can be found at The Australian Copyright Council.
If you would like to reproduce a significant portion of the guideline content or what might be outside of fair dealing (e.g. more than 200 words or figures/tables), please contact guidelines@cancer.org.au with your request.
Cancer Council Australia follows NHMRC guidance and policy on public consultation. More information can be found at Public consultation | NHMRC.
Contact guidelines@cancer.org.au with any other questions about our guidelines.
For queries regarding COSA guidelines, please contact: cosa@cancer.org.au
Please note: The information on this page is intended for clinicians and health professionals. We cannot respond to enquiries from individuals in regards to their own diagnosis or management.
Archive of clinical guidelines and resources
These guidelines and resources were developed, reviewed or revised more than five years ago, any guidance has been rescinded.
This archive is for reference purposes only.
Adult gliomas
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of adult gliomas: astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas (Published 2009)
Adult onset sarcoma
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of adult onset sarcoma (Published 2013)
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of adult onset sarcoma (Published 2020)
Bowel cancer
Familial aspects of bowel cancer: a guide for health professionals (Published 2008)
Basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma
Basal cell and squamous cell carcinoma - summary card for GPs (Published 2008)
Melanoma
Melanoma - an aide memoire to assist diagnosis (Published 2008)
Ocular and periocular melanoma
Ocular and periocular melanoma: supplementary document (Published 2008)
Prostate cancer
Clinical practice guidelines for the management of locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer