by Dr Stanley Green | Aug 18, 2016
What does that mean? So you’ve just been diagnosed with basal cell carcinoma, often called BCC for short. Carcinoma, that sounds a lot like cancer and it is. BUT, please don’t panic. Whilst it is something to be taken seriously, you’re very likely to live a very long...
by Dr Julie Argent | Jul 27, 2016
Sunscreen preventing skin cancer or harming health? Well now that’s an interesting question… You may have read recently, My Kitchen Rules host Pete Evans came under fire for some social media commentary suggesting sunscreen wasn’t really needed, even...
by Dr Julie Argent | Jul 19, 2016
Aussies, just love to sunbake – something about our ‘sun, sand, sea culture. But did you know that all that sun exposure has led to Australia having the highest rate of skin cancer in the world? And whilst we’ve had variations of the Cancer Council’s ‘slip, slop,...
by Dr Julie Argent | Jun 16, 2016
When is a freckle not a freckle? Imagine this: you’ve a freckle on your arm. It seems normal – you figure you live in Australia and everyone has some freckles, don’t they? So you don’t take much notice of it. But over time, it starts to grow darker, maybe it changes...
