Skin Flare Solutions

16/07/2025

17/06/2025

Thank you to Little Rae of Sunshine for these amazing cupcakes made to celebrate our 10th birthday come to the clinic and join us celebrate

11/06/2025

We have turned 10!!! 😱
I couldn’t have done this without the support of family, friends and our amazing patients 🥰 Big shout out to my staff Jordie and Luke who have to put up with me in a day to day basis. 🤣 Love you guys!! Here’s to 10 years and many more to come 🥂🍻

01/06/2025

Attending the National Australian Dermatology Conference over the weekend to be surprised last night with the EGO Dermatology Nurses Fellowship 2025 Award. I was overwhelmed with emotions as this comes one week out of celebrating my Ipswich Clinics 10th birthday 🎁 Those who have been on the journey with me over the years will know the joy, laughter, tears and stress of running a business has been a roller coaster journey. But the one thing that keeps me going is seeing the confidence and happiness in my patients that I have been able to help.
I also want to thank my staff and my family who have been so supportive of me over the years and keep me grounded. Thank you to EGO and the ADNA for this amazing opportunity to gain knowledge and skills from colleagues overseas that I can implement in my clinics and provide the best care for my patients.

16/04/2025

Melanoma March Coolangatta 2025. Big thank you to my beautiful friends Kerry and Jess and daughter Addie for doing the walk with me 🥰 thank you to everyone who showed support and sponsored the event I am truly grateful ❤️

14/03/2025

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Help spread awareness and save lives.

14/03/2025

My Skin Tried To Kill Me
This is my story:

Late November 2024, whilst shaving my legs, I saw a spot to my right achilles heel and had to do a double take as I already had a freckle on my ankle, and it seemed to have multiplied. It was new and slightly raised as you can see from the photo it looked like a freckle because it wasn’t dark or black like most people think melanoma appears to present.

I am very religious with having annual skin cancer examinations with my skin doctor and had a full skin examination end of July 2024 and was given the “all clear”. Once I saw this new spot, I booked in to have it examined. At first it appeared to be benign but after discussion it was agreed to do a biopsy and send it to the lab for testing.

Two days later, I received the dreaded news that no one wants to hear…. “Sherene, your suspicions were correct, it has come back as Stage II Melanoma”. Initially I was in shock, how did this even happen? I always wear sunscreen, hat and seek shade whenever possible but here I was ….. I have cancer.

I then went and had the melanoma removed by our lovely dermatologist – Dr Adrian Mulholland who also had to check lymph nodes to ensure that the cancer had not spread. After treatment for the melanoma, I am now having 3 monthly skin checks.

The biggest shock apart from my cancer diagnosis was the response from friends and family “you will be fine why are you so worried? Its just like a bcc…..” NO friends and family melanoma is NOT like a bcc. Melanoma is aggressive and kills people. Unlike other cancers that respond well to chemotherapy or radiation therapy, melanoma doesn’t. This why people who are diagnosed with Stage 3 or 4 were told 10 years ago that they had 5 years to live. Lucky with the amazing work from the Melanoma Institute who developed immunotherapy as a treatment for melanoma, we are now seeing 50% of patients living beyond the 5 years but there is still a lot of work to be done.

Therefore, I am participating in the annual Melanoma March at Coolangatta on 12 April and helping raise funds and awareness to everyone on the importance of sun protection, regular skin cancer checks and self-skin checks. I am personally now a cancer survivor, and this was from identifying a new lesion and acting on it quickly. Melanoma can progress to Stage 4 in as little as 6 weeks.

My question is to everyone reading this, when was the last time you had your skin checked???

The Melanoma Institutes goal is zero deaths from Melanoma. Please support this walk and sponsor me on the link below.

Sherene xx

https://coolangatta.melanomamarch.org.au/page/ShereneDevlin-81046468

10/01/2025

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19/12/2024

Ipswich Clinic Christmas & New Year Hours

11/11/2024

UPDATE:
We are now back!!! Phones are now working again. We apologise again for the inconvenience.

ANNOUNCEMENT!!!! We would like to let everyone know that after the severe storms last night our clinic has no internet or phone services so we are unable to take your enquiries. We are working hard to try and have this fixed as soon as possible. We appreciate everyone’s patience and understanding while we wait for this to be fixed. Unfortunately it is out of our hands. We will get back to you as soon as we possibly can. Much appreciated the Skin Flare Team