Areas of Focus

Recognition

• Provide a platform to recognise skin cancer doctors and the broader skin cancer medical community, who have undertaken additional training to ensure best-practice skin cancer services.

Education

• Increase community awareness of skin cancer to understand the principles of prevention and to correctly identify suspicious skin lesions.
• Provide relevant best-practice information to medical professionals (eg. PCPs, pathologists, plastic surgeons, dermatologists, nurses, pharmacists) about skin cancers.
• Increase the ability of non-medical professionals involved in personal grooming (e.g. hairdressers, tattoo artists, masseurs, beauticians) to accurately identify potential skin cancers.
• Ensure all Primary Care Providers (PCPs) can competently conduct full-body skin examinations with dermatoscopy in order to accurately diagnose skin cancers.

Cross-Disciplinary Coordination

• Optimise the capacity of the medical workforce to reduce the time between initial discovery and definitive treatment.
• Explore methods to encourage cross-discipline communication to coordinate optimal care for the patient.
• Reduce the financial burden on patients, governments and insurers.

Research

• Provide funding support to research projects on the prevention, screening, diagnosis and management of skin cancer.