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.
Melanoma research
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.
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Achievements
- Dr Victoria Mar received an Award for Thesis Excellence from the Monash School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine for her doctoral thesis ‘Clinical and molecular analyses of aggressive melanoma.
- Dr Charles Xie was awarded the 2015 Monash Comprehensive Cancer Consortium Prize for Best Poster in Cancer Research at Alfred Health Week for his poster entitled ‘Scalp melanoma - distinctive high risk clinical and histological features’. Dr Xie also a won Best Poster prize at the 2015 Australasian College of Dermatologists Annual Scientific Meeting.
- Dr Diana Norris and Dr Charles Xie received World Congress of Dermatology Trainee Scholarships to attend the 23rd World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver, Canada in 2015.
Postgraduate students
1 PhD student
Predictors of melanoma prognosis
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Testing AI for skin cancer
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.
Lifesaving clinical trials network given a $25 million boost
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.