Melanoma Research Victoria

Source: Oncology Nurse Advisor, May 2019 ANAHEIM, CA — Learning of a published research report prompted nurses at a Florida cancer center to take on “The Hairstylist Melanoma Challenge,” a joint project with Eyes on Cancer, whose motto is Trained eyes save lives, to educate hairstylists to recognize suspicious lesions on their clients and suggest a […]

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Source: Vancouver Sun, May 2019 Cancer in young adults is relatively rare, and so came as a shock to multiple-medal-winning gymnast Tamara O’Brien. Weeks after winning a silver medal in double-mini trampoline at the 2017 World Games, Tamara O’Brien felt a strange lump under her chin while watching TV in her mother’s Coquitlam duplex. She […]

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Source: NZHerald, May 2019 On Mother’s Day in 2015, Leisa Renwick was diagnosed with stage-four melanoma. Now, the Tauranga mother of three is in remission and is a fierce cancer campaigner who has been unveiled as an ambassador for an Australasia cancer advocacy group. When Renwick was diagnosed, she was told there was nothing doctors […]

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Source: The Courier, May 2019 FORMER truck driver Jay Allen has lost 54 friends to melanoma. Most of them Jay had got to know through his own battles with cancer after discovering an unusual mole on his ankle that kept rubbing on his work boots and bleeding. Becoming a cancer patient had a massive impact […]

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