More information about melanoma & other types of skin cancer

HealthInfo recommends the following pages

Cancer Society: Understanding Cancer – A guide for people with melanoma.
This 56-page PDF booklet covers everything from what cancer is and how it spreads to emotional support, sexuality, and fertility. It is also available as an audio file (downloads to your computer).
New Zealand Guidelines Group – Melanoma
Information for people with melanoma, their families, and their friends.
Melanoma New Zealand
This website includes facts about melanoma, how to prevent it, skin check providers, and more.
SunSmart Schools
This website includes information about the best hats and clothing for sun protection, how to balance sun protection with getting enough vitamin D, and how to use sunscreen effectively.
DermNet NZ:
- Melanoma
  Information about what causes melanoma, who gets it, what it looks like (including images), and the outlook for people with melanoma.
- Skin cancer
  This page includes links to information about all the different types of skin cancer.
Cancer Society – Detecting and diagnosing skin cancer
A factsheet with information about how to check your skin, and what technologies are used to detect skin cancer.

UpToDate.com – melanoma
Information about melanoma treatment and sunburn. Some of the information sheets include complex clinical information.
Patient.info:
- Skin cancer – melanoma
  Includes a diagram of the different parts and layers of skin, general information about different kinds of skin cancer, and specific information about melanoma.
- Skin cancer – non melanoma
  This page has the same general information as the page above, but specific information about non-melanoma skin cancers.
- Skin cancer overview
  A six-page PDF with general information, including photographs of different types of skin cancer.

Written by HealthInfo clinical advisers. Last reviewed December 2016.

See also:

Looking after your skin surgery wound

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