We recommend that adults and children over 12 wear face masks when attending our clinic, but no longer provide masks to patients and carers. Videoconsultations are conducted via telehealth at our dedicated virtual clinic. We are experiencing high demand for appointments hence require that all patients provide a referral prior to booking an appointment so that we can identify and manage urgent and emergency conditions in a timely manner, and so that our surgeons can assess your suitability for a telehealth appointment and identify any further information or tests that might be required before your consultation. If our surgeons assess that your condition (especially recent injuries) is best managed with hand therapy rather than surgery we may recommend that you see a qualified hand therapist (physiotherapist or occupational therapist) rather than schedule an appointment with our surgeons. Dr Tomlinson does not offer consultations and surgical services where a Medicare Rebatable Item Code does not apply; this includes injections for palmar hyperhidrosis. Dr Tomlinson has scheduled sabbatical leave during much of October, November and December 2023 so will not be available for urgent or emergency referrals during that time.

Skin cancer

Created 06 January 2013, last modified 07 January 2013

Dr Jill Tomlinson offers a full range of hand and wrist surgery services at Melbourne Hand Surgery. The skin cancer information provided on this website covers:

Basal cell carcinoma
Use of 5-fluorouracil / Efudix to treat solar keratoses and squamous cell carcinoma in situ
Melanoma treatment
Prevention of melanoma
Prevention of skin cancer
Squamous cell carcinoma

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Skin cancers account for 80% of all newly diagnosed cancers

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Two in three Australians will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the time they are 70
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Every year in Australia around 434,000 people are treated for one or more non-melanoma skin cancers. In 2007, 448 people died of the disease.
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