Other melanoma resources

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 

• Moles
• Freckles
• Lentigines
• Atypical naevi
• Basal cell carcinoma
• Squamous cell carcinoma

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