The earlier you find a cancerous mole, the easier the treatment and the better the outcomes. But it’s not easy distinguishing between harmless, benign moles and those that warrant further attention. In…
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Despite the many awareness-raising campaigns on the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, a walk along any tourist beach will tell you just how many sun worshippers continue to soak up the sun…
The prevalence of itches and pain in patients with skin cancer can help clinicians identify which of these cancers are melanoma…
Fear of developing skin cancer is one of the stronger motives for people to use sunscreen, according to new US research…
A new laser imaging system has been developed by researchers at the University of Queensland to safely view skin structures…
With daylight saving ending yesterday across most of the country and winter approaching, Australians are moving from fears of too much sun exposure resulting in skin cancer to too little sun exposure and…
Non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSCs) are the most common cancers in Australia and account for seven out of every eight new cancers diagnosed. If detected early, they are relatively easy to treat and rarely…
Many theories have been proposed for the evolution of dark skin pigmentation – and a new paper revives one of the oldest: that skin cancer was a more potent selective force for the evolution of protective…
Europeans fall prey to skin cancer because of their lighter skin, while Africans’ dark skin protects them. But East Asians, whose skin colour resembles that of Europeans, are similar to Africans in their…
A gene mutation responsible for red hair and pale skin is also attributed to risk of melanoma. An international study found…
Vitamin D has emerged as “the vitamin of the decade”, with a long and growing list of maladies supposedly caused through its absence or prevented through its bountiful supply. But is there adequate evidence…
Melanomas may be less common than other skin cancers but their ability to become malignant and spread to other parts of the…
A drug that may one day be used to treat skin cancer has been found to be safe for use on humans and may reduce the size…
Women who use aspirin for five or more years have a 30% lower risk of developing melanoma skin cancer than women who don’t…
With the long, hot Australian summer comes the imperative to manage the country’s enormous skin cancer risk. Along with the growing raw numbers (11,545 skin cancer cases diagnosed in 2009) and rates of…
Smartphone applications designed to help people work out if they have a melanoma are potentially harmful, getting it wrong…
Taxpayers will be spending over $700m annually to treat Australia’s most common skin cancers by the year 2015, with over-65s…
Myths abound about UV radiation and its effect on our health. We hear that sun-protection has triggered an epidemic of vitamin D deficiency; being tanned protects you from sunburn; a tan looks healthy…
SAVING THE OZONE: Part seven in our series exploring on the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer – dubbed “the world’s most successful environmental agreement” – explains how the…
A study that suggests vitamin A could reduce the risk of melanoma should be treated with caution, according to Australian cancer experts who say the results are inconclusive and involve potentially toxic…
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Professorial Research Fellow. School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide
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Adjunct Professor, School of Psychology, Curtin University and College of Health and Medicine, Australian National University
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Professor of Dermatology, The University of Melbourne
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H. Peter Soyer est un·e ami·e de La Conversation
Professor of Dermatology, The University of Queensland
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Specialist Scientist (Public Health), South African Medical Research Council
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Professor of Epidemiology, Australian National University
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Professor in Behavioural Science, The University of Queensland
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Head, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Sciences; Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Head of Urology at Monash Medical Centre and Associate Professor of Surgery, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Deakin University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, University of New South Wales, UNSW
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Senior Research Fellow, Queensland Institute of Medical Research
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
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Bruce Armstrong est un·e ami·e de La Conversation
Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney
