Protect Protect Protect 1. Watch the clock. Stay out of the sun between 10am and 2pm to avoid the worst UV rays. You do need a daily dose of Vitamin D to keep your body functioning normally, so have your cuppa in the morning sun for 10 minutes or take your daily constitutional walk in…
How do you like the current heatwave? Please remember to stay cool, hydrated and if you are going into the sun- SLIP, SLOP and SLAP!! Remember, our little skin clinic at Shailer Park found 100 melanomas last year. Melanoma is a deadly cancer, but if found early, is easily treatable. Book for your annual skin…
If melanomas are found in early stages then they can almost always be completely cured by the correct excision. BUT early melanomas are hard to distinguish unless you see an expert Skin Cancer doctor. We have 2 Masters of Skin Cancer Medicine doctors and 1 experienced studying his degree. Melanomas do not have to be…
As we age, particularly we Australians, dark spots seem to appear overnight on our skin. Not just faces, but on the body, too. They are caused by UVA sun exposure. Even if we don’t get much sun these days, pigmentation rears its ugly head from early sun exposure when we were young. It can appear…
Horrible term “ugly duckling’. We all know that it refers to the one that stands out as looking not as nice as the others surrounding it. That is why skin doctors term unusual spots on the skin as “the ugly duckling”. Those spots that stand out as not being the same as others but different-…
