by Dr Stanley Green | Jan 12, 2017
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...
by Dr Stanley Green | Jan 3, 2017
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...
by Dr Stanley Green | Dec 20, 2016
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...
by Dr Stanley Green | Oct 18, 2016
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...
by Dr Stanley Green | Sep 20, 2016
Many people, when first diagnosed with anything serious, immediately think the worst. And whilst a melanoma diagnosis needs to be taken very seriously, with new treatments constantly being researched, a melanoma diagnosis is often not the mortal blow it once was. If...