The Northern Beaches Skin Cancer Clinic blog
Here you'll find discussions about the latest research and other things you should know about skin cancer. If you have a question or want to know about something specific, drop us a note and we'll do our best to write something for you. Drop us a noteHaving 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...
read morePreventing melanoma skin cancers
What you need to know to protect yourselfAustralia 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...
read moreOn waiting until after the holidays
To have a spot removedLast 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...
read moreTypes of melanoma
They're not necessarily what you might thinkWhen 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...
read moreSDDI – 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...
read moreSequential 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 imagingDermoscopy is the technique where a Dr uses a hand...
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