Westmead Dermatology
Striving towards disease-free skin
Today, with more than 40 cancer immunotherapy indications and over 2,000 clinical trials, immunotherapy has become all but cemented in the future oncological treatment. It is therefore of upmost importance that clinicians are able to recognise and manage cutaneous toxicities – the most common immune related adverse event. We would like to invite dermatologists, medical …
We are pleased to announce that our paper investigating the suitability of non-invasively collected (tape-stripped) stratum corneum samples from the patients with actinic keratosis for downstream proteomic investigation has been published in the Journal of Proteomics Clinical Application. Our paper is one more step in the development of new diagnosis techniques for actinic keratosis using …
Instagram and Snapchat users have positive attitudes about tanning and more frequently tanned intentionally within the last year. Lisa Abbot and our team at Skin & Cancer Foundation Australia has studied the relationship between Social Media, Selfies and Tanning. Younger Australians and females feel more attractive when tanned and tanned intentionally in the last year. …
Prof Pablo Fernandez-Peñas has participated in the Australasian Melanoma Conference 2018 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre with 2 talks, one about the cutaneous effects of anti-melanoma therapies and another on the efficacy and side effects of hedgehog inhibitors in basal cell carcinoma. These are exciting time for Oncodermatology, with new therapies for important …
The Centre for Translational Skin Research & the Department of Dermatology at Westmead Hospital are pleased to announce the ONCADERM educational program has won the 2018 PRIME “Excellence in Education” award. The ONCADERM program is a project developed by our oncodermatology experts, oncology nurses from around Australia, and Vivacity Health sponsored by Merck. The main …
Westmead Dermatology is working to develop a better way to follow up patients with lymphomas of the skin. Cutaneous Lymphomas (CTCL, Mycosis Fungoides) are rare skin cancers with a variable clinical presentation including patches, plaques and nodules on the skin that mimics common diseases such as eczema and psoriasis. Cutaneous lymphomas are diagnosed and monitored …
We are excited to publish our article entitled “Incidence of Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC) and Squamous Cell Carcinomas (SCC) in Patients on Anti-Programmed Cell Death-1 Therapy (anti-PD1) for Metastatic Melanoma” in the Journal of Immunotherapy. BCCs and SCCs are the bread and butter of dermatology in Australia. This is the first study comparing the incidence …
On the 5th of April 2018, one of our Oncodermatology clinics’ team members presented an educational program of EGFRi-related cutaneous effects during the 2018 Australia & New Zealand Lung Cancer Nurses Workshop at the Australian Lung Cancer Conference in Sydney. The ANZ-LCNF nurses workshop was a pre-conference event to the 7th Australian Lung Cancer Conference. …
This year, the Australasian College of Dermatologists held their 51st Annual Scientific Meeting at the Gold Coast Convection and Exhibition Centre (GCCEC), Queensland from Saturday 19 May to Tuesday 22 May 2018. Members of the Center for Translational Skin Research were invited to present their research and experiences for a variety of topics. Professor Fernandez-Penas …
Australia has one of the world’s highest rates of melanoma – in fact, it is often called Australia’s “national cancer”. Although it has increasingly been in the forefront of public consciousness, there continues to be questions, misconceptions and gaps in knowledge around the issue of melanoma. The Melanoma on Monday in May is a free …
