A type of severe skin cancer, melanoma has the highest incidence prevalence in Australia. It is more commonly found in young people between the ages of 15-39 years when compared to other types of cancers. Melanoma happens to be the third most common type of […]

Australia is listed as having the highest percentage of skin cancer patients worldwide but that fact hasn’t made melanoma drugs easily accessible to affected Australians. A skin cancer drug known as Yervoy, which is subsidised elsewhere in other countries is not yet available to Australians […]

A cancer fighting drug that has shown promise in reducing the size of tumours is available elsewhere, yet not to cancer patients within Australia. For those, who wish to use the drug for their treatment, the option to travel overseas remains open. However, in order […]