A BREAST care nurse working across Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula is celebrating 25 years in the healthcare industry.
Jenny Macindoe has been a breast care nurse for 25 years. For the last eight years she has been with the McGrath Foundation, working out of Peninsula Health hospitals.
Macindoe said that an experience with a high school teacher helped set her on her path. “One of my favourite teachers from my high school years was diagnosed with breast cancer, and while I was doing my training in Sydney, she came to Sydney for treatment,” she said. “I went and visited her. She was a very inspirational person, and I remember at that point being quite taken by the experience of people with breast cancer and what they had to go through.”
Over the last two decades, Macindoe says that treatments are improving. “Their treatments are so much more complex and there are many more options now than there used to be, so people are living a lot longer,” she said. “We’ve got an ageing population on the peninsula, so our numbers are going to increase and people need support for longer because the outcomes are so good now.”
Macindoe said that working with fellow McGrath Foundation nurses Giselle Ciavarella and Georgina Molinari is one of the most rewarding parts of her work. “I’d like to say how thrilled I am to be working alongside Giselle and Georgina,” she said. “I’ve enjoyed working here and I enjoy the camaraderie and support of a team. For me, at this point in my career, having started and developed the McGrath Cancer Care Nurse Service at Peninsula Health, knowing the service is growing is extremely satisfying.”
First published in the Frankston Times – 19 August 2025