Leading skin care brand Avène has raised nearly $39,000 to support clinical trials led by Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials.

The Australasian Ocular Melanoma Alliance (AOMA) held an educational gathering in Hobart on the 7th of March.

Led by MASC Trials and Dr Malaka Ameratunga, the BETTER trial aims to improve the care, treatment and quality of life for symptomatic patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain.

To help conquer the urgent problem Australia has with melanoma and skin cancer, leading skin care brand Avène has teamed up with Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials.

The incredible efforts of the team behind Conquering Skin Cancer were recognised at the 2025 Impact DOCS Awards with Awards of Excellence for Best Documentary Feature and Best Direction. There are also new screening locations and sessions to be held in in South Australia and New South Wales.

Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials has been chosen by the Australian Livestock and Property Agents Association (ALPA) as its 2024 charity.

As a young doctor, Prof Mark Shackleton was focused on becoming a neurologist, until one day, he found himself on an oncology ward. Witnessing the profound challenges faced by cancer patients left a deep impact on him, igniting a passion for melanoma research.

Melanoma and Skin Cancer Trials and the Victorian Heart Institute are leading an Australian-first trial to determine if a common cholesterol medication can reduce the risk of heart attacks in melanoma patients treated with cancer therapy.

A $110,000 donation to a new trial treating melanoma brain metastases will help open additional research sites around Australia, offering hope to patients, like Peter Wilson, who have melanoma that has spread to the brain.

MASC Trials, MSCAN and BlazeAid have partnered to deliver sun safety educational videos for BlazeAid volunteers so they know how to protect their skin during frontline disaster response work.

Digital photography combined with artificial intelligence technology has shown promising results as a diagnostic tool for the early detection of melanoma.

Australia and The Netherlands have an alarming statistic in common – melanoma is in their top five most diagnosed cancers. Clinical teams from both countries are now contributing to the international MelMarT-II trial.

A community fundraising campaign has donated $100,000 to a clinical trial investigating melanoma that has spread to the brain.

MASC Trials and Melanoma Patients Australia have launched Self-Skin Checks, No Regrets, an Australian first campaign targeting rural and regional Australians 60+ to regularly check their skin.

An Australian-led trial is now gathering melanoma experts from around the world to contribute results from 3,000 patients to determine the optimal surgical excision margin for melanoma of the skin.

Leading Merkel cell carcinoma expert, Dr Wen Xu, recently presented two Australian clinical trials at the 2nd International Symposium of Merkel Cell Carcinoma in Seattle, USA.

The I-MAT clinical trial is giving patients with early-stage Merkel cell carcinoma an immunotherapy drug after their initial surgery and / or radiotherapy for the cancer to improve their cure rates.

A new innovative clinical trial hopes to find a novel treatment combination for patients who have developed metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma.

The new SiroSkin clinical trial is exploring whether a simple topical cream applied to the face can reduce incidences of skin cancer in organ transplant recipients.

A new editorial publication states that Keratinocyte (skin) cancer is the most common form of human cancer, yet limited treatment advances have been made in the past 10 years and few quality clinical trials have been published, particularly from Australia.

A melanoma clinical trial with a site in Carlton, Victoria, will examine the effectiveness of Melanoma Surveillance Photography – offering state-of-the-art technology aiming to improve surveillance for people at high risk of melanoma.

A world-wide clinical trial is now hoping to resolve this issue by investigating whether there is a difference in disease-free survival for patients treated with either a 1cm or 2cm excision margin for stage II primary cutaneous melanoma.

New melanoma research has shown the concurrent use of two drugs that slow the growth of metastatic melanoma, Dabrafenib and Trametinib, are safe to use during palliative radiation therapy.

A drug commonly used to treat prostate and breast cancer is being trialled in Bendigo to determine its effectiveness in treating melanoma, and more Bendigo residents with melanoma are being sought for the study.

A new melanoma clinical trial involving Bass Coast residents aims to improve surveillance for people at high risk of melanoma.

The AOMA-funded virtual ocular melanoma nurse is a new specialist telehealth service to support patients with ocular melanoma in remote and regional areas of Australia.

Professor H. Peter Soyer is focused on improving the early detection of skin cancer through a nationwide melanoma screening program.

MASC Trials opens the Australian arm of the first global patient registry for uveal melanoma.

Join Dr Wen Xu, Prof. Gerald Fogarty and Jonathan Pincus for a discussion about the I-MAT clinical trial, which aims to improve the management of early stage Merkel Cell Carcinoma.