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Wishing you safe and happy holidays, from Alfred Health.

This year, the Victorian Melanoma Service (VMS) at The Alfred has seen a significant drop in referrals. But cases of melanoma have not dropped – prompting specialists to urge all Victorians to act now before it’s too late.

This year, 22-year-old Demi Lawson has not only faced a global pandemic, but a diagnosis of brain cancer, an awake craniotomy (brain surgery) – and has been learning to live with the death of her younger brother.

While Victoria’s second COVID-19 wave appears to be coming to an end, experts at The Alfred’s Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) warn that the mental health battle is only beginning.

Doctors at The Alfred are hoping to provide Bacchus Marsh teenager Connor Manning with long awaited answers to his seizures.

Between April and June this year, notifications of breast cancers decreased almost forty percent. Head of our breast surgery unit Dr Melanie Walker said, the COVID-19 restrictions should not be deterring people from seeing their GP for a breast examination if they have symptoms or concerns.  

We want to say a huge thank you to our community for the overwhelming and generous response we’ve had to our psychiatry WardRobe project.

Our Mental and Addiction Health Triage Team have seen a thirty percent increase in demand for their service since the COVID-19 pandemic started. To help support the growing number of people in the community who are reaching out for mental health support, the Triage + response was established.

Update: We'd like to extend a huge thank you to everyone who reached out, donated and supported our Psychiatry WardRobe project. We've received overwhelming support from our community and staff have been busy sorting clothing donations which will well and truly see us through the coming months. For now, we are unable to accept any further donations - but as the WardRobe is a permanent feature in our unit, we will post an update as soon as we have capacity to accept more donations of your pre-loved clothing.

As a fit and healthy 18-year-old Dominic Mazzeo paid little attention when he began experiencing pain in his stomach, in hindsight he wishes he had.