Skin cancer
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.
- by Catherine Strohfeldt
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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’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.
- by Mary Ward
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?
- by Sarah Berry
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.
- by Stephanie Darling
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Opinion
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.
- by Farrukh Tufail
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‘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.
- by Benjamin Law
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Cancer
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.
- by Angus Thomson
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Advertising
‘Wild west’: The TikTok tanning ads breaching community standards
There are dozens, possibly hundreds, of other similar videos on social media, prompting leading advertising figures to call out marketing tactics lacking social responsibility.
- by Aisha Dow
SPF loophole: Experts’ aerosol sunscreen warning for parents
Radiation and melanoma experts say updates to the TGA’s rules for sunscreen labelling fail to address issues with aerosol sunscreen safety.
- by Mary Ward
No hat, no play is ditched after grade 6. One high school is changing that
Eva Urtone’s primary school had a no-hat, no-play policy, but the policy was forgotten by year seven. Her high school is about to become one of the first in the state to mandate hats.
- by Robyn Grace
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