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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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Conquering Skin Cancer:
The new film hitting the big screen over summer!

2024 Spot on Award for Trailblazing

2024 Spot on Award for Trailblazing

The 2024 Spot on Award for Trailblazing Australia’s National Cancer The Melanoma & Skin Ca…

2024 Spot on Award for Dedication

2024 Spot on Award for Dedication

The 2024 Spot on Award for Dedication to Changing Australia’s Skin Cancer Landscape This year’…

Conquering Skin Cancer Film

Conquering Skin Cancer Film

Conquering Skin Cancer: The new film hitting the big screen over summer! Skin Cancer is Australia’s …

Eureka prize winners

Eureka prize winners

Eureka prize winners! Congratulations to the incredible team at the Australian Centre of Excellence …

Australia’s population diversity may be impacting our melanoma rates

Australia’s population diversity may be impacting our melanoma rates

Researchers from QIMR Berghofer have found that declining melanoma rates among young Australians hav…

How advertising and media are priming us for skin cancer

How advertising and media are priming us for skin cancer

How advertising and media are priming us for skin cancer In August 2018 I was diagnosed with Stage I…

Protecting Skin Health in Regional Australia: MSCAN and Corteva Agriscience Join Forces

Protecting Skin Health in Regional Australia: MSCAN and Corteva Agriscience Join Forces

MSCAN is proud to have delivered hundreds of skin checks in regional Australia in our partnership wi…

Young Australians and sun safety

Young Australians and sun safety

Our young Australians are often faced with the social pressure of tanning, so what needs to change? …

AMSCA

Sector-wide consensus: Targeted National Screening Program

Acknowledging the significant burden of melanoma and skin cancer in Australia, we are committed to d…

Dept. of health roundtable discussion

Dept. of health roundtable discussion

MSCAN proudly attended a sector-wide Roundtable hosted by the Minister for Health and Aged Care and …

Award Winning Melanoma Researchers

Award Winning Melanoma Researchers

Congratulations to clever researchers at the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Cl…

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: 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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