Melanoma - know your risk
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.
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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 moreAdler NR, Kelly JW, Dowling JP, Saunders H, Mar VJ
(2018), Clin Exp Dermatol, 43(3), 363-365
DOI: 10.1111/ced.13343
Sahhar L, Howard M, Allnutt K, Andrews F, Bergman R, Gin D
(2018), Australas J Dermatol, 59(3), 241-243
DOI: 10.1111/ajd.12702
Mar VJ, Soyer HP
(2018), Ann Oncol, 29(8), 1625-1628
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.
Artificial intelligence (AI) could soon become a powerful tool in skin cancer assessment. The Victorian Melanoma Service is currently conducting a trial into the effectiveness of the technology.
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.