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 Julie Argent | Dec 9, 2016
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....
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...
