Support in New Zealand
If you live in New Zealand, support for patients with melanoma and their health professionals is provided by the following organisations:
Patients with melanoma
- Melanoma New Zealand
- Cancer Society of New Zealand
- Melanoma risk assessment tool — Melanoma Institute of Australia
- Melanoma nurse co-ordinators employed by each District Health Board
Health practitioners
- Clinical practice guidelines for the management of melanoma in Australia and New Zealand — Cancer Council Australia, Australian Cancer Network, and Ministry of Health, New Zealand (2008)
- Revision of the guidelines above (Cancer Council Australia Cancer Guidelines wiki)
- Melnet, the Melanoma Network of New Zealand.
- Melanoma and Skin Cancer (MASC) Trials
- Melanoma education — Melanoma Institute of Australia
DermNet pages on melanoma
- Melanoma
- ABCDEs of melanoma
- Melanoma in situ
- Melanoma in skin of colour
- Melanoma pathology
- Superficial spreading melanoma
- Lentigo maligna
- Lentiginous melanoma
- Nodular melanoma
- Acral lentiginous melanoma
- Acral lentiginous melanoma dermoscopy
- Acral lentiginous melanoma pathology
- Subungual melanoma
- Desmoplastic melanoma
- Ocular melanoma
- Animal melanoma
- Childhood melanoma
- Childhood melanoma pathology
- Amelanotic melanoma
- Amelanotic melanoma dermoscopy
- Melanoma of nail unit
- Primary dermal melanoma
- Treated melanoma pathology
- Genetics of melanoma
- Genes and melanoma – the simple version
- Mucosal melanoma
- Spindle cell melanoma
- Spitzoid melanoma
- Metastatic melanoma
- Metastatic melanoma with unknown primary
- Metastatic melanoma with diffuse melanosis cutis
- Melanoma – common skin lesions course
- Your Personal Melanoma Diary – Enhancing Melanoma Survivorship. Australian resource provided to dermnetnz.info by Dr Martin Haskett
Other skin lesions
Procedures relating to melanoma and other skin cancers
- Sun protection
- Skin self examination
- Derm(at)oscopy
- Mole mapping
- Spectral analysis
- Skin surface gene expression
- Electrical impedance spectroscopy
- Optical coherence tomography
- Genetic testing for melanoma
- Blood-based melanoma detection
- Radiographic investigations in melanoma
- Isolated limb perfusion for advanced melanoma
- Excision of skin lesions
- Sentinel node biopsy
- Radiotherapy for skin lesions
- Cryotherapy
Melanoma drug treatments
- Electrochemotherapy
- Immunotherapy of melanoma
- Topical and intralesional immunotherapy for melanoma metastases
- Adjuvant therapies for melanoma
- Cutaneous adverse effects of antimelanoma therapies
- Vemurafenib
- Dabrafenib
- Trametinib
- Ipilimumab
- Nivolumab
- Pembrolizumab