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 In the newsVarious | Solariums banned in NSW4th February 2012On Saturday 4th February, the NSW Environment Minister Robyn Parker announced that the NSW State Government would introduce a ban on commercially operated solaria (sunbeds) from 2014. Various | Mutant gene boosts melanoma risk14th November 2011Australian researchers, including our Co-director of Research, Graham Mann have identified a gene mutation that more than doubles the risk of melanoma in people who carry it. As reported in Australian news - in print, on television and radio, and online.
Channel 7 Sunrise | New push for a tan ban10th November 2011There are new calls for solariums to be banned in Australia. Sunrise's Mel Doyle discusses the issue and its link to melanoma with melanoma survivor Jay Allen. Watch video now Sydney Morning Herald | Champion of Ethical Investment28th October 2011Erik Mather believed that if corporate Australia made its business decisions within a broader ethical canvas, the long-term interests of shareholders would be advanced. He dedicated his professional life to this belief. In February this year Mather was diagnosed with metastasised melanoma and sadly passed away recently. Melanoma Institute Australia thanks all those who donated in memory of Erik. All donations go towards advancing melanoma research and treatment. Read more MedPage Today | Melanoma excision safe with narrow margins27th October 2011Melanoma Institute Australia Executive Director Professor John Thompson, and Dr David Ollila, who is visiting the Institute from the University of North Carolina, have commented on the finding that a 2-cm surgical margin is adequate for patients whose primary cutaneous melanoma is thicker than 2 mm. Professor Thompson and Dr Ollila observed that the next question should be whether a 1-cm margin might be safe, and that a study investigating this is in development. They pointed out that a greater understanding of melanoma biology is needed. Read more The Sunday Telegraph | Fight to stop skin cancer9th October 2011MELANOMA rates have doubled in the past 30 years despite widespread use of sunscreen prompted by the "Slip Slop Slap" sun-safe campaign in 1980. Researchers have now embarked on unlocking the genetic codes that cause melanoma cells, to reveal why 10,000 people a year are diagnosed with the cancer - and 1200 people die from it. Read more The Australian | Push to unlock melanoma genome secrets29th August 2011MELANOMA remains one of the hardest cancers to treat once it has spread -- despite being a disease that, in the words of one medical textbook, "writes its message in the skin with its own ink and . . . is there for all of us to see". Read more 9MSN | Buy Polly and Waz's car for charity21st August 2011Polly and Waz's Toyota Corolla Levin ZR Hatch is up for auction, with all funds raised going straight to Melanoma Institute Australia. As well as scoring their very own piece of Block history, the winner will receive an autographed photo of Polly and Waz with their Corolla. Read more Inner West Courier | Share a meal for medical cures17th August 2011MASTERCHEF may be over but you can be a “medical chef” in Cook for a Cure. The national initiative running this August is encouraging people to share a meal with friends, family or workmates to raise money for medical research. Read more Sydney Morning Herald | Raper repays favour10th July 2011WERE it not for a television commercial about melanoma, explains the rugby league legend, John Raper, ''I would almost certainly be dead''. Read more The Australian | Therapy to block a gene mutation in melanoma patients is helping prolong the lives of advanced sufferers6th June 2011TWO new treatments, including therapy blocking a gene mutation occurring in half of melanoma patients, are prolonging lives of people suffering from the deadliest form of skin cancer, clinical trials unveiled yesterday show. Read more Sydney Morning Herald | Philanthropy is big business - except in corporate Australia4th June 2011Former transport magnate Greg Poche is widely seen as the greatest domestic philanthropist, having given $40 million to the Mater Hospital in 2005 to kick-start Melanoma Institute Australia, a tumour cancer research centre. He has also spent more than $20 million on indigenous health. Read more |
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