Things you should know about Melanoma when living in Australia

Melanoma claims 1500 Australian each year

Melanoma claims 1500 Australian each year Source: Supplied

Australia has the highest number of melanoma patients in the world. Every 30 minutes a new case of melanoma is diagnosed in Australia and every 6 hours an Australian dies from melanoma.


If you are a person living in Australia, or if you are planning to come to Australia in the near future, you should be well aware of something called melanoma.
Australia has the highest number of melanoma patients in the world. Every 30 minutes a case of melanoma is reported in Australia and every 6 hours an Australian dies from melanoma.
There has been a lot of talk about this in the past few days. Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer, who are researching this disease, were selected as Australians of the Year this year.
So we are ready to inform you about this current topic. Today Dr. Sachini Daulagala joins us for that.

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