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This ‘Barbie tanning drug’ creates a ‘summer glow’. But is it worth the risk?

Melanotan has been growing in popularity, largely thanks to social media. But dermatologists are issuing stern warnings against its unregulated use.

  • Lauren Ironmonger

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University of Sydney professor Georgina Long said the trial would uncover whether the approach she has pioneered to treat melanoma could be used to fight glioblastoma.

Can this melanoma therapy beat brain cancer? We’re about to find out

A world-first clinical trial will investigate whether the experimental treatment given to a former Australian of the Year can treat aggressive tumours in other patients.

  • Angus Thomson
Claire Hamilton and daughters Grace, 7, and Chloe, 9.

Tax Office cracks down on sunscreens with extras

Sunblock must be primarily marketed as sunscreen to remain GST-free, the Australian Taxation Office says.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
February next month marks 10 years since Tamara Dawson was diagnosed with melanoma.

‘Australia’s national cancer’: Melbourne’s melanoma hotspots

Tamara Dawson was just 36 when she was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma. She says there’s still “so much we’re not doing to reduce the burden of disease”.

  • Hannah Hammoud and Broede Carmody
One in 10 people had sun tanned over the last year.

‘Sunscreen is toxic’ and three other SPF myths to rethink this summer

Common misconceptions still stop Australians from using SPF products correctly, despite the country having the world’s highest melanoma rate.

  • Kayla Olaya
Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?

Queensland is the global skin cancer capital, but for how much longer?

Where you live in Brisbane could determine whether you are diagnosed with melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.

  • Catherine Strohfeldt
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Sunbakers and swimmers at Barangaroo ocean pool, 2023.

The sunburnt country turned things around. But it can’t stop now

Although Australia’s public health response to skin cancer risk should be celebrated, there are real and founded concerns that the gains made could be lost.

  • The Herald's View
Jen Benfield with her daughter Chloe, 16.

Jen’s teenage summers were all about ‘being brown’. Decades later, she fears nothing has changed

With her daughter now 16, melanoma patient Jen Benfield is worried by the attitudes towards tanning still held by the next generation. 

  • Mary Ward
Doctors dismissed Brendan Moynihan as too young to have a “seroius” health issue.

Lifestyle and the ‘lag effect’: What’s causing the rise of early onset cancer

Since 1990, cancer in people aged 18 to 49 has increased by 80 per cent worldwide. But why?

  • Sarah Berry
To increase the longevity of fake tan, gently exfoliate every couple of days and moisturise daily.

There is only one type of safe tan. This is how to achieve it

There are disturbing reports that commercial sunbeds are making a comeback in Australia despite being illegal since 2016.

  • Stephanie Darling

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