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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

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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
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
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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
More than two-thirds of Australians will be diagnosed with a skin cancer during their lives.

I’m a doctor who deals with the c-word daily. Yet a brief encounter on a busy day floored me

It’s been a challenging winter and I know my fellow doctors, nurses and paramedics are exhausted. A line from Spider-Man has been echoing in my mind.

  • Farrukh Tufail
“I grew up in the ’80s and it took me decades to realise, ‘Actually, I have great ideas.’

‘It took me decades to realise’: An Australian of the Year’s advice to teen girls

Professor Georgina Long, 2024’s Australian of the Year with fellow melanoma researcher Richard Scolyer, on life, death – and what young women need to know.

  • Benjamin Law
A trial participant Hayley Hetherington, a 49 yr teacher from Fairlight. Story about new immunotherapy for melanoma passing phase 3 human trials at Melanoma Institute Australia. May 27, 2024. Photo Edwina Pickles SMH

Hayley’s melanoma came back. Then scientists tried something different

The Sydney teacher is one of dozens of Australians who contributed to a global trial set to transform treatment of melanomas and, potentially, other cancers.

  • Angus Thomson

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