Caring for Your Skin During Cancer Treatment
About
Cancer treatment can affect your skin and quality of life. This session will give you practical advice to help you manage common skin changes.You will learn about:
• Managing itchy skin
• Treating and soothing uncomfortable rashes
• Caring for your skin during and after radiation therapy
• Sun safety and how to choose and use sunscreen
There will be time for questions.
Patients and their carers (current patients of Alfred Cancer service).
Speakers include:
Speakers
• Professor Victoria Mar, Director, Victorian Melanoma Service & SkIIN Discovery Program
• Professor Johannes Kern, Director of Dermatology & SkIIN Discovery Program
• Sue Bartlett, Medical Oncology Nurse Practitioner
• Radiation Nurse
• Patient speaker (lived experience)
Date
Monday 23 March 2026 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM (UTC+11)Location
Minderoo Education Centre - Paula Fox Melanoma & Cancer Centre
545 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004