Having a skin cancer check

Last blog we wrote about what might happen if you waited too long to have a suspicious spot looked at. This week we thought we might take a different view of what happens at a skin cancer clinic – that of a patient. One of our patients, who by virtue of patient...

Preventing melanoma skin cancers

What you need to know to protect yourself Australia has the second highest rate of melanoma skin cancer in the world. Why? In a nutshell, because we love our outdoors – for gardening, swimming, golfing, sport, hiking, biking, sailing, walking, lunching and well, just...

On waiting until after the holidays

To have a spot removed Last blog we wrote about the different kinds of melanoma that we find. Some are the usual brown ugly duckling kinds you will have seen on TV, magazines, etc. BUT…a whole host of melanomas are spot that you wouldn’t really look twice at. Until...

Types of melanoma

They’re not necessarily what you might think When it comes to Melanoma, if you’re like most people, you’re probably thinking rather ugly brown spot that follows the ABCD rules. And when you look, they’re mostly pretty obvious. Except that’s where you’d be wrong....

SDDI – Sequential digital dermoscopy imaging benefits

The real benefit of your skin cancer check being done properly   Last blog post we wrote about how to tell if your skin cancer check was being done properly. And we promised to share some of the added sequential digital dermoscopy imaging or SDDI benefits that...

Sequential digital dermoscopy imaging – Part 1.

Skin cancer checks – is yours being done properly? If your doctor isn’t using sequential digital dermoscopy imaging in your skin cancer checks – you could have a problem. What is sequential digital dermoscopy imaging Dermoscopy is the technique where a Dr uses a hand...