The Cosmetic Laser & Skin Cancer Centre Brendale

Doctors away today Mon 22 June for education, back tomorrow

Did you know there’s a way to help your doctor choose medications to reduce the chances of side effects? Currently this is useful when choosing anti depressants; anti psychotics; pain medications; certain cardiovascular medications and also chemotherapy for cancer patients. This helps to reduce trial and error adverse reactions and promotes safer personalised medicine. They are private tests (unless you have cancer then please ask your oncologist). These tests your Cytochrome P450 enzymes, drug transporters and other single genes for chemotherapy drug toxicities.

What a great day of education with international and local speakers on the best way to manage menopausal women

From 8:30 am to 6 pm, I spent the entire day in a dark theatre on my other favourite topic - Women’s Health Update (with so many other enthusiastic doctors). It was apparently a lovely sunny day outside after a week of ☔️ rain. Can’t complain, we did get very good interstate and local expert speakers.

Explaining how a name change can reduce delay in diagnosis and improve “whole” patient care

Educating you about name change of a common women’s health condition - Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is now going to be changed to Polyendocrine Metabolic Syndrome, as published in Lancet May issue 2026. You all will hear more about PMOS in the media in the future.

It’s a bit strange educating you about lasers in the middle of a war. However to be able to focus on treating and educating patients is a blessing and a great distraction from all the mess that’s happening around the world at the moment.

Let’s talk about lipoma today because we had a great video to share from our recent case which will be shown at the end of short educational video