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Alexandra District Health to offer local cancer treatments

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Aug 8, 2025

ALEXANDRA District Health (ADH) is delighted to announce that they will be offering oncology services. Dr Yang Wang commenced at ADH on Thursday, July 31, and spoke to our newspaper on the same day.

Dr Wang has been based at Eastern Health for the past six months, and has previously worked at different health networks, including Monash, Northern Health and Peter McCallum Cancer Centre.

He said, “I’ve seen a broad range of capabilities and have a lot of oncology experience training different sites.”
He explained that the opportunity to work at ADH came up about a month ago, as part of a collaboration between Eastern Health and Alexandra District Health.

They sent out an expression of interest and he applied and got the job.

He’ll initially be working at ADH one day per week, on a Thursday for the whole day. There is also an opportunity for this to increase in the future.

From Dr Wang’s side, he will be providing medical oncology services.

A specialist nurse, Molly Kitson, will be joining the team in a month and she will be able to deliver infusion treatments, such as immunotherapy targeted treatments, and then once they have the capability, they will be looking to expand that as well.

Nathan Willoughby, Interim Director of Clinical Services, said, “The impetus probably came about from the development of the Health Service Networks, of which we’re part of the East Metro Murrindindi Health Service Network, with Eastern Health and St Vincent’s.

As part of that collaboration, we were looking for something that would benefit the community, and this was one of the very first identified areas of need, essentially providing and meeting one of those key goals of providing care closer to home.

We know that we’ve got people who are driving over an hour and a half to go down for these treatments. There’s generally support people around the individual patients who are taking….

Image: Interim Director of Clinical Services Nathan Willoughby, ADH CEO Jane Poxon and Dr Yang Wang.

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