Melanoma ‘calculator’ for skin cancer risk
Source: The Canberra Times, August 2020
Australians will now be able to determine their likelihood of developing melanoma in under a minute with a new lifetime risk ‘calculator’.
Researchers at Melanoma Institute Australia have developed the online tool, and hope it will save lives by sparking early conversations between at-risk Australians and their doctors.
“No risk prediction is going to be absolutely perfect, but this is much better than anything else that’s available," the institute’s co-medical director Richard Scolyer told AAP.
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