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All members of the melanoma community are invited to attend a Melanoma Consumer Breakfast. The Breakfast is part of the Australasian Melanoma Conference – which also has great consumer forums. The program is on the website. All bookings can be made via the conference website

http://australasianmelanoma.org/

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Melanoma has a reputation for being one of the most curable types of cancers, but that does not mean much to survivors such as Jay Allen and Aaron Kelly.
Both men were diagnosed with stage three metastatic melanoma in their early 30s and told they had a 50/50 chance of surviving the following five years.
They also watched friends die from the disease.
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The Bunbury Skin Cancer Clinic is partnering with melanomaWA to provide the community with free skin checks on February 24.
melanomaWA chief executive Clinton Heal said skin cancer could happen to anyone from the age of 15.
“It gives people from all walks of life the chance to get their skin checked – there’s no barriers,” he said.
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She will next month join Townsville’s first ever twilight Melanoma March in honour of her mother, Gina Sellen, who lost her battle against the deadly cancer in 2016.
Ms Smith, 29, will join the charity fundraiser on March 10, marching at Jezzine Barracks to raise money for research.
“Until my mum was diagnosed with it, I didn’t know what a melanoma was, let alone what it was capable of doing,” she said. “It is very aggressive. I’d never had a skin check before my mum told me she had stage four melanoma and I better get checked because it can run in the family.”
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In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off their blood supply.
“We have developed the first fully autonomous, DNA robotic system for a very precise drug design and targeted cancer therapy,” said Hao Yan, director of the ASU Biodesign Institute’s Center for Molecular Design and Biomimetics and the Milton Glick Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences.
“Moreover, this technology is a strategy that can be used for many types of cancer, since all solid tumor-feeding blood vessels are essentially the same,” said Yan.
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Gran Fondo, an annual MSU cycling event, has raised more than $640,000 in its first four years for skin cancer research, as well as helping fund programs that focus on awareness and prevention.

The event, in its fifth year, was held June 24 in downtown Grand Rapids. The proceeds raised by the race go directly to MSU’s College of Human Medicine by allowing researchers to conduct studies that could lead to groundbreaking treatments for skin cancers like melanoma.

Jamie Bernard, who is also an assistant professor and recipient of a Gran Fondo grant, has been studying the direct relationship between how obesity increases one’s risk of skin cancer.

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The South Mandurah and Pinjarra football clubs will bring skin cancer awareness into the spotlight and honour a number of club legends when they host their annual Steve Bazzo Cup this Sunday.

Both clubs have been personally touched by melanoma and will join forces to raise awareness of the deadly disease when they meet at Falcon Oval.

Melanoma survivor and South Mandurah life member Clint Heal pioneered the annual event.

Heal was diagnosed with skin cancer during his time at Peel Thunder in 2005, and founded Melanoma WA as a means of supporting sufferers in 2008.

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ROOF carpenter and melanoma sufferer Brad Gray (34) says everyone has the tools to protect against the sun.

“Sunscreen, hats, sunglasses, long-sleeved shirts, trousers and regular skins check are what you need,” Mr Gray said at the launch of the annual MelanomaWA-organised Melonoma Marches at the Cancer Wellness Centre, Cottesloe on Wednesday.

Last year, Mr Gray was diagnosed with third-stage metastatic melanoma with brain metastases.

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