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Skin cancer for healthcare providers
Key points about skin cancer
- This page contains information about skin cancer for healthcare providers.
- Find information on clinical guidelines, resources and CPD resources.
Skin cancer prevention and early detection strategy 2024 – 2028(external link) Melanoma Network, NZ, 2025
Reapplying knowledge on sunscreen and photoprotection: A narrative review(external link) Australian Journal of General Practice, 2025
Melanoma
Reducing the burden of melanoma in NZ – prevention and risk assessment(external link) BPAC NZ, January 2020
Early detection of melanoma and assessment of asymptomatic people at high risk(external link) BPAC NZ, 2021
Non-melanoma skin cancer
How to use fluorouracil and imiquimod for non-melanoma skin cancer in a general practice setting(external link) BPAC, NZ, 2017
Managing non-melanoma skin cancer in primary care – a focus on topical treatment(external link) BPAC, NZ, 2013
Guidelines for the management of adults with basal cell carcinoma(external link) British Association of Dermatologists, 2021
Clinical practice guidelines for keritinocyte cancer(external link) Cancer Council Australia, 2019
Images
To help with identification, see DermNet NZ for images of:
- melanoma(external link)
- actinic keratosis(external link)
- basal cell carcinoma (BCC)(external link)
- cutaneous horn(external link) (a cutaneous horn can be based on viral warts, actinic keratosis or squamous cell carcinoma)
- squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)(external link).
Tools
Risk protector tools for melanoma and keritinocyte cancer(external link) Melanoma Network, NZ
Management of non-melanoma skin cancer in primary care
Video: Goodfellow Unit MedTalk: Non-melanoma skin cancers (Duration: 21 minutes)
In the following video, Dr Diana North, Goodfellow GP Advisor talks with Dr David Lim, Dermatology and Skin Cancer Surgery specialist, about the management of non-melanoma skin cancer in primary care.
(Goodfellow Unit, NZ, 2017)
PHARMAC Seminar series
Video: PHARMAC Seminar Series: Dermoscopy, 1a of 5. Introduction to dermatoscopy - part 1 (Duration: 27 minutes)
Videos from the one-day PHARMAC seminar on dermatoscopy held in Wellington, New Zealand, on May 4th, 2015, by Prof Bruce Arroll & Prof Amanda Oakley.
See more videos in this series: Dermatoscopic patterns and diagnosis updates (9 videos)(external link) PHARMAC Seminar Series, NZ, May 2015
The Skin Cancer College Australasia(external link) also provides education for medical practitioners.
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