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MSCAN continues to expand its library of helpful information and easy to read resources related to skin cancer with the launch of MSCAN’s Blog, On the Spot.
 
Designed for our melanoma and skin cancer patient community, On the Spot will cover everything related to skin cancer with the aim to improve skin cancer prevention and early detection, and patient care.

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Parliamentary Friends of Melanoma & Skin Cancer Awareness

Horizon Scanning

The Morgan Mansell Prize: Horizon Scanning

The Morgan Mansell Prize (Young Melanoma Researcher of the Year) is a prize initiated by Melanoma Re…

The Morgan Mansell Prize: CD4+ T cells

The Morgan Mansell Prize (Young Melanoma Researcher of the Year) is a prize initiated by Melanoma Re…

The Morgan Mansell Prize: Analysing data from AI imaging

The Morgan Mansell Prize (Young Melanoma Researcher of the Year) is a prize initiated by Melanoma Re…

The Morgan Mansell Prize

Morgan Mansell passed away from melanoma at the age of just 25 years young in 2018. Throughout the l…

Parliamentary Friends of Melanoma & Skin Cancer Awareness

One thing politicians from all sides of politics can agree on is the significant burden of skin canc…

Targeted National Screening Program for Melanoma and Skin Cancer

Craig Lawn, a Stage IV melanoma survivor, is now spearheading the battle against skin cancer with hi…

Check for Spots Day

Today is Check4Spots Day, an initiative for all of us to ‘be all over melanoma’ in memory of 25 year…

The role of the carer

Having a carer by your side will help provide emotional support through diagnosis, treatment and bey…

What they don’t tell you when you are first diagnosed with cancer

Pauline was 37 weeks pregnant with her second daughter when she discovered what she thought was a mo…

The Alan Cooper Epiderm Lecture

A highlight of the calendar each year, the Alan Cooper Epiderm lecture provides insights from Austra…

MSCAN at MI-PAC 2023

A productive and insightful trip to Munich, Germany, to meet with advocates, clinicians and research…

Gut health and cancer

Can the bugs in my gut really treat my cancer? Ok, well maybe not yet, but it might not be so far aw…

Help researchers develop an App for people receiving immunotherapy

Dr Julia Lai-Kwon is a Medical Oncologist and Health Services Researcher at Peter MacCallum Cancer C…

New research that could lead to improved treatments for melanoma

Monash University researchers in Melbourne have discovered how a rogue protein produces ‘Jekyl…

MASC Trials

Clinical trials for melanoma and skin cancer patients

MSCAN asked Gabrielle Byars, CEO of Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials (MASC Trials), to explain clinic…

Global skin check campaign responds to predicted increase in melanoma cases

May is World Melanoma Awareness month and MSCAN is getting skin serious, on a global level. Partneri…

Melanoma and Skin Cancer Nurses Organisation Inaugural Summit

If outcomes indicate the success of a Summit, then the Inaugural Summit for the Melanoma & Skin …

Skin Cancer and Artificial Intelligence: The world’s largest imaging trial ever undertaken in skin cancer

MSCAN caught up with Prof H Peter Soyer, from The University of Queensland, to find out more about t…

Tamara Dawson

I am one of the too many Australians that has been diagnosed with a type of skin cancer.

I am one of the too many Australians that has been diagnosed with skin cancer. Two in three Australi…

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