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The Victorian Melanoma Service is a multidisciplinary consultative clinic for the management of melanoma and is one of the largest such clinics in Australia.
Melanoma research is also conducted by Medical Oncology, in partership with the Victorian Melanoma Service and the Melbourne Melanoma Project.
Find out more about Medical Oncology research.
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A series of three publications reported studies investigating the prognosis associated with melanomas.
Find out moreThe Melbourne Melanoma project is a research project that has multiple platforms to enable researchers to better understand melanoma.
Find out moreIn 2015 we explored the key reasons why certain aggressive melanoma subtypes elude diagnosis compared with more recognised subtypes.
Find out moreRademaker M, Gupta M, Andrews M, Armour K, Baker C, Foley P, Gebauer K, George J, Rubel D, Sullivan J
(2017), Australas J Dermatol, 58(3), 166-70
DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12521
Zallmann M, Smith PK, Tang MLK, Spelman LJ, Cahill JL, Wortmann G, Katelaris CH, Allen KJ, Su JC
(2017), Acta Derm Venereol, 97(8), 906-15
Lee S, Coutts I, Ryan A, Stavrakoglou A
(2017), Australas J Dermatol, 58(3), e117-9
DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12501
Australians will soon have greater access to potentially lifesaving treatments for rare cancers and other diseases with the establishment of a clinical trials network led by Alfred Health and Monash University.
A drug combination that offers stage 4 melanoma patients the highest change of survival will be listed on the PBS from December 1, a move which specialists at the Victorian Melanoma Service say could buy some patients at least four more years of life.
Congratulations to Adjunct Professor John Kelly, head of the Victorian Melanoma Service, on being awarded the Member of the Order of Australia.
