Useful Videos A suite of video presentations from the Melbourne Patient Information Forum. Listen to expert doctors as well as a moving patient story.
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Useful Videos A suite of video presentations from the Sydney Patient Information Forum. Listen to expert doctors as well as two moving patient stories.
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MPA Publications This guide provides a starting point for people in their journey with melanoma. It offers the services that MPA provides to melanoma patients as well as their carers, family and friends.
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MPA Publications This guide provides a starting point for people in their journey with melanoma. It offers introductory information to melanoma patients as well as their carers, family and friends.
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MPA Publications A guide with general information on MPA with donation form.
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MPA Publications MPA is here to support all Australians diagnosed with the rare eye cancer, Ocular Melanoma, their families and friends.
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MPA Publications This user friendly imagery illustrates how immuno-oncology uses the body's own immune system to help fight cancer.
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MPA Publications Melanoma Patients Australia
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Create an automatic monthly alert to conduct a skin self-examination on your mobile phone. Or if you prefer a natural reminder, just ‘look up’ – when you see the full moon, check your skin.
Follow the Melanoma Movement at www.melanomapatients.org.au/get-involved/melanoma-movement/
Only 11% of people have their moles checked by a dermatologist and just 33% self-check their skin annually. But dermatologists say skin self-examinations should be carried out every month. Check out our useful guide for how to do it.
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With melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer incidence rates increasing, we must find ways to create habits and make skin self-examinations a part of our monthly calendar. ☝️🌝
Melanoma Patients Australia - Get Involved
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Employers must treat sun exposure as a health and safety issue, providing appropriate clothing and sunblock, training about skin protection and self-examination and organising shift patterns to minimise sun exposure.
Danger Sun Overhead is a great resource for info about sun safety in the workplace. Find out more at www.dangersunoverhead.org.au
Melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer is one of the few cancers where we can definitively identify its cause and that means it is largely preventable - so why is there no nationally funded prevention program in Australia?
