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Welcome to Melanoma Patients Australia Ltd

Welcome to Melanoma Patients Australia. We hope that you find the available information useful and contact with other patients comforting and inspiring. The aim of the website is to provide melanoma patients, their family and friends with information about melanoma and its treatment options, as well as providing a support network to nurture them through difficult times.

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What's it like?

What's it like to have a CT scan?

Computed tomography (CT) is a medical imaging method employing tomography. Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation. The word "tomography" is derived from the Greek tomos (slice) and graphein (to write).
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Survivor Stories

Karen O'Neill Velasquez

In 1996 while on the beach in Santorini Greece, honeymooning, I was putting sunscreen on my face, and I felt a lump. Six years prior I had a melanoma mole removed from my back. I came home to discover that I was a stage IV patient.
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