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Other melanoma resources
Text: Miiskin
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 nurse co-ordinators employed by each District Health Board
Health practitioners
- Standards of Service Provision for Melanoma Patients in New Zealand – Provisional (doc, 874 KB) – New Zealand Ministry of Health tumour standards (December 2014)
- 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.
- Australia and New Zealand Melanoma Trials Group (ANZMTG)
DermNet New Zealand pages on melanoma
- Melanoma
- Melanoma in situ
- Melanoma in skin of colour
- Melanoma – pathology
- Superficial spreading melanoma
- Lentigo maligna
- Lentiginous melanoma
- Nodular melanoma
- Acral lentiginous melanoma
- Subungual melanoma
- Desmoplastic melanoma
- Ocular melanoma
- Animal melanoma
- Childhood melanoma
- Amelanotic melanoma
- Genetics of melanoma
- Genes and melanoma – the simple version
- Mucosal melanoma
- Spitzoid melanoma
- Metastatic melanoma
- 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
- Electrical impedance spectroscopy
- Optical coherence tomography
- 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
- Vemurafenib
- Dabrafenib
- Trametinib
- Ipilimumab
- Nivolumab
- Pembrolizumab
DermNet images
- Superficial spreading melanoma
- Melanoma in situ
- Lentigo maligna melanoma
- Acral lentiginous melanoma
- Subungual melanoma
- Nodular melanoma
- Metastases and rare forms of melanoma
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On DermNet NZ
- About melanoma: What is melanoma? | Who gets melanoma? | What causes melanoma?
- Stopping melanoma: Ban the tan! | Clothes count | Slap it on! | Is any sun good for me?
- Finding melanoma: Spot the difference! | Check your skin today | See your doctor | Do I have melanoma?
- Treating melanoma: Pathological diagnosis | How is melanoma removed? | Has my melanoma spread? | I have advanced melanoma: what now?
- Follow-up: Surviving melanoma | What's my outlook? | Clinical trials | Other resources
- Our melanoma videos