Event Category: Seminar

Sydney Cancer Partners, in collaboration with the NSW Regional Cancer Research Network and Maridulu Budyari Gumal (SPHERE) Cancer Clinical Academic Group (CAG), is hosting the 2026 NSW Cancer Research Education Statewide Seminar Series. These online seminars are held on the third Tuesday of each month.

Session overview

This seminar will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is being applied across different cancer care contexts. The session will begin with a brief introduction to AI in cancer care, followed by presentations from both research and health service perspectives.

• Dr David Waddington will discuss the challenges of developing and robustly deploying AI in a radiation therapy environment.
• Mr Matthew Warner-Smith will present on work undertaken by the Cancer Institute NSW to evaluate and implement AI for mammography screening in BreastScreen NSW.

The presentations will be followed by a Q&A discussion.

RR-CLaN Rural Research Collaborative Learning Network

The session will provide a hands-on overview of how to conduct basic statistical analysis in Microsoft Excel. The statistical techniques covered will include:

• Comparing a mean to a reference or standard (one-sample t-test)
• Comparing two (study group) means (student’s t-test)
• Comparing three or more means using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
• Correlation analysis
• Regression analysis

Presented by Dr Alex Stephens who is the Director of Research at Northern NSW Local Health District. Alex is also a qualified biostatistician and undertakes population health and health services research using large, linked data collections.