Melanoma

Melanoma is a major public health issue in New Zealand. New Zealand has the highest incidence of melanoma in the world (a rate of 41.2 per 100,000 population, age standardised to the Segi world population, 2004; by comparison, Australia’s rate was 37.2). The latest data available, from 2010, shows that in that year there were 2341 new diagnoses of invasive melanoma, 2265 new diagnoses of melanoma in situ and 324 deaths in New Zealand. In 2010 melanoma was the fourth most commonly registered invasive cancer and the sixth most common cause of death from cancer.

Melanoma Research Areas Involving NZ Researchers:

Melanoma and Behavioural Research

Professor Louise Signal, Professor Nick Wilson, Professor Ann Richardson, Mrs Bronwyn McNoe, Associate Professor Tony Reeder, 

Melanoma Biology

Dist Professor Bruce Baguley, Professor Cris Print, Professor Rod Dunbar, Dr Hilary Sheppard, Professor Mike Berridge, Dr Melanie McConnell, Professor Ian Hermans, Dr Martina Paumann-Page, Professor Antony Braithwaite, Dr Aniruddha ChatterjeeProfessor Mike Eccles, Dr Erin Macaulay, Dr Euan Rodger, Dr Adele Woolley, 

Melanoma bioinformatic analysis: Dr Peter Stockwell, Associate Professor Mik Black

Molecular profiling predicting outcome: in stage III, Professor Parry Guilford, 

Markers of invasive potential: Associate Professor Joel Tyndall

Immune profiling and vaccine development: Associate Professor Rosyln Kemp; Vaccine delivery systems: Professor Sarah Hook; Dendritic cell immunotherapy: Associate Professor Rosyln Kemp

Immunogenic microenvironment: Associate Professor Alexander McLellan

Melanoma Detection, Screening and Epidemiology

Professor Mark Elwood, Associate Professor Brian Cox, Dr Mary-Jane Sneyd, 

Melanoma Treatment, Including Pre-clinical Models and Clinical Trials

Professor Michael Findlay, Dist Professor Bruce Baguley, Professor Rod Dunbar, Professor Ian Hermans, Professor Gavin Painter, Dr Catherine Barrow, Dr Lyndell Kelly, 

Melanoma End-of-Life Care Research

Dr Kate Grundy, 

Melanoma Health Services and Outcomes Research

Professor Mark Elwood, Mr Jeremy Simcock, Mr Scott Babington, 

Melanoma Patient Participation Research

Professor Mark Elwood, 

Melanoma Survival Research

Dr Chris Jackson

New Zealand-Specific Information on Melanoma:

For NZ Patients

Standards of Service Provision for Melanoma Patients in New Zealand – Provisional

This provisional melanoma tumour standard describes the level of service that a person with melanoma in New Zealand should have access to. All of the recently developed provisional tumour standards include a number of standard statements that are generic across most cancers; they apply to all people with cancer and to all cancer types.

Recent International Melanoma Research