SPOTTING MELANOMA AT MURBAH

The team had a mighty fine Open Day at the Stone & Wood Brewery in Murbah. So many locals made the most of the experience led by local skin specialist GP’s Dr. James Haslam from The Bright Side National Skin Centres in Byron Bay – and Dr. Timothy Ibrahim from Visit Sun Doctors Tomborine. Absolute superstars.

Big love to our Head of Growth Dan Hamilton for managing the event magnificently and teeing it all up with the lords and ladies of  Stone And Wood.

A great alignment with another high risk community – all checked on Meta Optima with sunscreen samples by La Roche-Posay.

Together, we are making skin cancer history. 🌞🔎🏁

DAYS

1

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

33

SUSPECT LESIONS

18

POSSIBLE MELANOMA

1

POTENTIAL NMSC

9

THIRSTY WORK

We left The Silver Bullet in Byron with Dan and it didn’t take long for him to tee up a skin check clinic with our friends at Stone & Wood.

With his co-working space just down the road it wasn’t a big stretch to pull the Defender up at his favourite local watering hole. This time… providing free, educational skin checks to the Byron community – along with his usual mingling. And wow was it well received!

So many people made the journey to come and get checked. Detecting quite a few suspect lesions thanks to the very kind Dr. James Haslam from Brightside Medical Clinic in Byron Bay. A brilliant skin cancer specialist with an absolute heart of gold.

We’ve long wanted to partner with Stone & Wood and this was a great way to get that relationship started.

DAYS

1

CLINIC ROOMS

1

SKIN CHECKS

33

SUSPECT LESIONS

5

POSSIBLE MELANOMA

1

POTENTIAL NMSC

4

THE DAY WAS SEASED!!

Many a mission was embarked upon in June… and all were a success.

Those of you who were following our stories this month would know that we’ve had a few notable additions to the Skin Check Champions family. The first being a beautiful 2008 Defender which we picked up from a supporter on the South Coast of NSW. This stunning silver beast was soon to be perfectly pared with a 7.7M custom made, stainless steel trailer. Newly christened, ‘The Silver Bullet’.

This brilliant new mobile skin check clinic had to be totally gutted, reweighed and ready for work with Surfing Australia for their inagural Seas The Day event on the NSW / QLD boarder. It was a huge stretch to get done in time but thanks to some very late nights and Dan for flying down from Byron we refitted the Silver Bullet, installed an electric braking system in The Defender, had both of them custom wrapped by Ben from Kingpin Wraps and we hit the road for a two day drive up to the Surfing Australia team.

The whole way there we were turning heads. I’ll never forget driving down the main street of Kingscliff and waving to people who had literally stopped walking to take out their phones and film us driving to set up on the beach. The duo does look phenomenal and we’re so happy to activate it at this wonderful event.

Huge thanks to everyone who visited, including the great Pauline Menczer, Laura Enever and Layne Beachley.

Surfers are apparently six times more likely to do battle with skin cancer so it was really important to be there working with our community partners at Surfing Australia.

DAYS

2

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

141

SUSPECT LESIONS

21

POSSIBLE MELANOMA

2

POTENTIAL NMSC

16

SKIN IN THE GAME

So… the results from @livgolf_league Adelaide with @LaRochePosayAUNZ have been absolutely mind blowing. Never have we had this much potential #skincancer before, even in remote / regional clinics like #Uluru and #Longreach… which really goes to show that #highrisk communities can be quite hard to predict.

@UniversitySA released a report saying that golfers were around 2.4 times more likely to do battle with skin cancer than your average Aussie. So we knew #golf was a great sport to plug into. However we had no idea the stats would be this alarming…

That’s one in five!

The only time we’ve had numbers this high was at #Coogee with all the Irish and beach lovers. Except the majority of their #skincancers were solar or actinic #keratosis. Nothing like the more dangerous stuff we were finding on the fairways of the @GrangeGolfClub!

We still need to run everything through the @metaoptima AI but even if these results were half correct they’d still be very concerning.

Seeing all the players come back in off the course with big red sunburns really brought this home. The amount of hours these people spent in the sun perfecting their skills makes this community very very susceptible.

We’d love to check more golfers all around the country. Particularly those in regional areas who don’t have good access to #skin #cancer specialists. Hopefully we can build on the success of all this to check many more like the #LIVGolf fans of #Adelaide.

So grateful for the opportunity to be here. Massive thanks to everyone who made it possible. Absolute #dreamteam.

Together, we are making skin cancer history.
🌞🧴🔎🏁

DAYS

4

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

274

SUSPECT LESIONS

100

POTENTIAL MELANOMA

20

POTENTIAL NMSC

38

CHEERS TO CHECKS

Thanks to the Rosemary Bryant Research Centre, Health SA donated some funding to bring our team to Clare Valley to check locals and visitors from surrounding regions. Now there’s a lot harder assignments than a gourmet food and wine festival, but like all the others our team took the challenge in their stride and had a great visit. Making a lot of friends and saving a lot of lives from skin cancer.

Jane from SkinSmart, Dan Hamilton from Skin Check Champions and Greg from Uni SA led the charge. Trialling a new inflatable tent set-up which we’ve had our eye on for quite some time. These canvas clinics are enclosed and much easier to regulate the temperature on compared to our Marquees. They’re also really easy to transport and set-up. A great evolution to our format and something we’ll roll out a lot more.

As part of the campaign the Uni SA team trained two local nurses in dermoscopy, with the pop-up clinic forming a vital part of their education.

 A huge thanks to the locals and nurses who made this such a success. Lovely to work with SA Health as well. Hopefully it’ll lead to much more.

DAYS

2

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

51

SUSPECT LESIONS

26

POSSIBLE MELANOMA

0

POTENTIAL NMSC

6

THE MOLE CHECK MOTEL

So honoured to be invited back to #CooberPedy for the #OpalFestival. This was our second year checking locals and farmers from surrounding stations. Some who drove over five hours especially to see us…

This vital work was supported by @SAHealth_ via the #RosemaryBryantResearchCentre at @UniversitySA.

So good to get the dream team back together. @JaneHomberger and her @SkinSmartAUS crew helped train a nurse from the Umoona Tjutagku Health Service Aboriginal Co. who loved the experience. Building the capacity of the local healthcare network to be able to service #earlydetection needs well beyond our visit.

And Strewth did we find some #skincancer… Especially on a lot of the people who had never been checked before. This will all come out in the research data we gathered. Showing just how important and ‘life saving’ the #ProjectCheckMate model is – even if it’s being rolled out at the #MoleCheckMotel.

Huge thanks to everyone who brought this campaign to life. The locals, the specialists, the event crew, tech leads and the hosts at all the events. Such a warm and welcoming place – we felt like old friends.

Damn lucky to be there.

DAYS

2

CLINIC ROOMS

3

SKIN CHECKS

141

SUSPECT LESIONS

85

POSSIBLE MELANOMA

4

POTENTIAL NMSC

4

START YOUR ENGINES…

A mammoth amount of work went into these numbers. So many people checked. Six clinic rooms. 4 1/2 jam packed days. Tens of thousands of sunscreen samples given out and a brilliant team of can-do make it happen-ers who created one of the most visited activations of the entire @AusGP.

Such a great response from everyone too. We had racers, engineers, pit crew, presenters, execs, sponsors and even the creative director of the whole @f1 made a b-line to our beautifully put together space. A huge step up from our previous two years with two clinic rooms, and all thanks to @larocheposayaunz who is the official sunscreen partner of the Melbourne F1 annnnnd #SkinCheckChampions.

So many people flock to Albert Park and spend all day in the sun to watch their heroes race around one of the worlds most frequented tracks. Sun protection is vital – along with our skin checks which helped so many people outpace #skincancer before it can cause carnage.

We’re so proud to be in the mix of all this providing such a valued and vital service. Much love to our practitioners, @hammosan and everyone who brought this to life. Brilliant results and superbly executed.

DAYS

5

CLINIC ROOMS

6

SKIN CHECKS

1005

SUSPECT LESIONS

233

POTENTIAL MELANOMA

12

POTENTIAL NMSC

71

RIGHT. IN. AMONGST IT!

OK… this one was definitely a personal favourite for our CEO who is a massively keen surfer and was chomping at the bit to team up with Surfing Australia for an official skin check session at one of their comps. And if you could pick any… this would be the one. Right in the heart of the Gold Coast – skin cancer capital. Right on the finish line behind the commentary booth. Right up near the bar and juuust on the right bit of hill to be able to see the surf. We soon became flooded with punters eager to get checked by our two dermoscopists on the Saturday – then two local skin specialist doctors on the Sunday. SUUUUCH an important clinic to be amongst the action. Especially with surfers being so much more at risk… Thank you Tempus One for coming to the rescue with sponsorship and making it all happen – along with the wonderful crew from Surfing Australia. So stoked to be there and hugely appreciative for everyone who visited.

DAYS

2

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

129

SUSPECT LESIONS

37

POTENTIAL MELANOMA

2

POTENTIAL NMSC

17

SOUTH EVELEIGH SKIN CHECKS

Our second week in residency at South Eveleigh in Sydney. Checking many keen workers and locals who we didn’t get to the first week. Many of whom travelled in from surrounding areas after hearing about our last visit… This one found even more skin cancers. Quite a few potentially being melanoma.

Such a good crew. We loved working with the WorkClub & South Eveleigh teams to bring all this to life. Two beautiful clinic rooms. So many great snacks and a tonne of really grateful people who work and play in the area. Can’t wait to come back next time. Much love everyone!

DAYS

5

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

256

SUSPECT LESIONS

109

POTENTIAL MELANOMA

7

POTENTIAL NMSC

44

THE TULLA TUB RESIDENCY

This is our longest ‘in house’ operation to date. And one of the biggest overall campaigns – checking a whopping 1,492 people!!

The format worked superbly, with the #AntheliosEveryday crew providing sunscreen samples to the surfers, our dermoscopists set up in beautiful, air conditioned rooms – all right on the edge of Australia’s most loved wave parks. Many thanks to @LaRochePosayAUNZ for sponsoring is and URBN Surf for hosting. We really feel part of the family now and are super grateful for their support and expertise to make this such a success.

Just before we set up this clinic a report came out that surfers were 120 X more likely to do battle with skin cancer… a lot right!? So being here was very very important – and the results speak volumes for the way we run things. Well done everyone!!

DAYS

18

CLINIC ROOMS

3

SKIN CHECKS

1,492

SUSPECT LESIONS

366

DYSPLASTIC NEVUS / MELANOMA??

23

NMSC

45

MAKING WAVES IN NOOSA

Close to 1,000 people checked in nine jam packed days. Our dermoscopists we’re booked solid and the #AntheliosEveryday crew handed out thousands of free sunscreen samples to a peak summer crowd.

Huge thanks to @LaRochePosayAUNZ for sponsoring this important initiative and to @noosasurfclub / @noosa_council for hosting us so superbly. Seriously, it’d be hard to beat this beachfront location – and to save so many from #skincancer really rounds it out.

Much appreciation to everyone who visited, got checked and became #skincheckchampions. We’re honoured to be up there and can’t wait to provide this vital service to you all again soon.

DAYS

9

CLINIC ROOMS

4

SKIN CHECKS

969

SUSPECT LESIONS

548

MELANOMA

9

NMSC

123

SAVING LIVES IN SOUTH EVELEIGH

In a very exciting partnership, Mirvac brought us into their inspiring South Eveleigh precinct to provide educational skin checks for all the locals and businesses who call this amazing Sydney suburb home. The initiative booked out in a matter of days and received brilliant support from everyone involved. Special thanks to Work Club Locomotive for hosting us and everyone who attended. The dermoscopists loved checking in such a great location and the results prove this was definitely a worthwhile campaign.

DAYS

5

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

307

SUSPECT LESIONS

96

MELANOMA

20

NMSC

8

FREE CHECKS FOR BUSY CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS

The start of summer is also the start of the ‘silly season’. Where diaries get full and to-do lists very long. To help families get their skin checks done before Christmas, we set up at one of Australia’s busiest shopping destinations – Chadstone in Melbourne. It was our first residency at Chemist Warehouse brought to you by our skin care partner La Roche-Posay. Our dermoscopists set up in a beautiful in-store clinic space traditionally used for other healthcare initiatives like flu vaccinations and therapy. The multi month event was a huge success with full bookings and many skin cancers detected. Also, for the majority of participants, it was their first ever skin check.

DAYS

8

CLINIC ROOMS

1

SKIN CHECKS

221

SUSPECT LESIONS

32

MELANOMA

3

NMSC

5

THE BIGGEST SKIN CHECK EVENT IN AUSSIE HISTORY

To celebrate National Skin Cancer Action Week, we set up at Australia’s most iconic beach to check the most amount of people in once consecutive event. It surpassed all expectations and saved a lot of lives from our ‘national cancer’. It was also the premiere of our mobile new skin check clinic which performed superbly. Huge thanks to the Bondi Bathers Surf Life Saving Club for letting us set up in their iconic clubhouse. And also to everyone who attended the launch of La Roche-Posay’s ‘Your Skin Remembers’ campaign which had sky writing, national media & PR and a delicious dinner / dermlive at Pavillion on the Promenade.

DAYS

10

CLINIC ROOMS

6

SKIN CHECKS

1,545

SUSPECT LESIONS

740

MELANOMA

25

NMSC

26

AFL FANS FLOCK TO THE G TO GET CHECKED

This was our first official event with the national AFL and it all took place at the grandest event of the year. It was all made possible thanks to the team at La Roche-Posay who set up under a majestic fig tree on the hallowed gardens by tower 5. As Brisbane Lions & Collingwood fans streamed into the arena, thousands of them stopped by our clinic space for much needed Anthelios Sunscreen and a free skin check! A brilliant alignment we’d love to build on at AFL grounds all around the country!

DAYS

4

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

182

SUSPECT LESIONS

26

MELANOMA

4

NMSC

25

SKIN CHECKS
& PERFECT SETS

To shine a spotlight on skin cancer during Men’s Health Week we joined forces with an Australian surfing mecca… URBN Surf. The event attracted hundreds of high risk surfers who came to get checked and learn about how to protect yourself ‘out the back’. Our skin care partner La Roche-Posay sponsored it all superbly, hosting a lavish lunch for men’s health influencers and celebrities who shared their skin cancer stories and lessons from their time under the sun. An important and life saving event we are honoured to be part of.

DAYS

4

CLINIC ROOMS

3

SKIN CHECKS

194

SUSPECT LESIONS

31

MELANOMA

6

NMSC

2

SKIN HEALTH GETS THE CHECKERED FLAG

One of the most important international events on the Melbourne calendar, the Formula One attracts people from all walks of life from all over the world. We were honoured to be trackside with our skincare partner La Roche-Posay who were one of the official sponsors of the event, allowing us to walk the grid, meet in the corporate boxes and share our early detection message with tens of thousands of attendees and millions of viewers. The skin check clinics became a favourite meeting place with free Anthelios SPF 50+ and appointments with our dermoscopists. A wonderful event to be part of.

DAYS

4

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

260

SUSPECT LESIONS

26

MELANOMA

10

NMSC

9

DELIVERING THE GOODS FOR THOSE THAT DO THE SAME

To thank the L’Oreal team who organise, pack and send all the amazing L’Oreal products to people all around the country – our skin care partner La Roche-Posay brought us into their main distribution centre to provide skin checks for their staff. The event was very much appreciated and allowed us to educate people about the importance of sun safety and early detection. Many of who had never been checked before.

DAYS

3

CLINIC ROOMS

2

SKIN CHECKS

104

SUSPECT LESIONS

1

MELANOMA

1

NMSC

0