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Remembering our Vietnam veterans Dear editor, sonnel who served in Vietnam over 10 years The Cobar RSL Sub Branch would like to of the war. Our initial commitment of 30 milicommemorate the service of all those that tary advisers in 1962 grew to include a battalserved in Vietnam. ion in 1965 and a task force in 1966. This Friday is Vietnam Veterans Day and Australia’s last combat troops came home in marks the Battle of Long Tan (which took March 1972, about three years before the war place on August 18 and 19, 1966). ended. Some Australians returned to Vietnam This year we pause to remember those that in 1975 to help with evacuations and humaniserved in the Vietnam War. The veterans of tarian work during the war’s final days. the Vietnam War were treated terribly on their More than 500 Australians died in the war return to Australia, however, Australia now and over 3,000 Australians were evacuated honours them for their service. This year with wounds, injuries or illness. marks the 50th anniversary of the end of Aus- We remember everyone that served our natralia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. tion in Vietnam. Australians honour and remember the ser- Kain Neale vice of some 60,000 Australian defence per- President, Cobar Sub Branch, RSL NSW
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The Western NSW Primary Health Net- to provide rural GPs with clinical decision work (WNSW PHN) is rolling out new gold support for suspicious lesions of concern. standard care in skin cancer for residents DermScreen utilises a platform to allow GPs of western and far west NSW. to submit high quality clinical and dermascopDermScreen technology will give residents a ic photos with an attached questionnaire to faster diagnosis and general practitioners will facilitate effective diagnostic and management benefit from direct clinical support for skin support for potential skin cancer lesions. cancer. CEO and Founder of DermScreen, Dr Philip Cancer is one of Australia’s biggest disease Tong said the new system was created out of a burdens with Melanoma often referred to as need to be more innovative. ‘Australia’s national cancer’. “We needed to think about how we can use Regional, rural and remote areas experience technologies to support GPs and so we have significantly higher incidences of melanoma developed a system that will help GPs arrive than major cities, and rural people experience at a diagnosis faster, and support them with difficulties in accessing skin cancer diagnosis, the next steps. Having that type of clinical resulting in delayed presentations, especially decision support will potentially expedite biamong men. opsies or save a patient from having an unnecDermScreen is delivered by dermatologists essary procedure,” Dr Tong said.
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