The Skin Cancer Audit & Research Database

SCARD for Life

The SCCANZ Surgical Audit Project is a surgical log designed for doctors who treat skin malignancies. It has been designed to facilitate the easy recording of useful data at the time of treatment so that the treatment of skin cancers can be tracked.

The On-line version has now superseded the previous version. There is now no need to download and install any software.

This project also facilitates the generation of a confidential report on your computer. You are able to obtain a breakdown of your specimen management details including a breakdown by diagnosis, the number of new lesions sampled to exclude melanoma to find one melanoma, the percentage of new lesions treated to exclude non-melanoma skin cancer which are malignant, your diagnostic accuracy, the percentage of definitive managements which achieve adequate margins and other relevant details.

SCARD in the International Journal of Dermatology

Measuring performance in skin cancer practice: the SCARD initiative.


Authors: Rosendahl C, Hansen C, Cameron A, Bourne P, Wilson T, Cook B, Baker M, Keir J, Dicker T, Reid M, Williamson R, Weedon D, Soyer HP, Youl PH, Wilkinson D.

School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

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Who uses SCARD

The SCARD system is used typically those in primary care roles that are working with skin cancer; such as doctors, nurses,  pathologists, dermatologists, and plastic surgeons.

At any one time there are around 100 practitioners using the SCARD system and contributing to the pooled data-set. Being a part of SCARD allows you to access our unique data pool that allows you to compare your information with a pool of over 250,000 cases.

You are welcome to Register for free access to SCARD by using to link at the top of this page.

SCARD in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

The impact of subspecialization and dermatoscopy use on accuracy of melanoma diagnosis among primary care doctors in Australia

Authors: Cliff Rosendahl, MBBS, Gail Williams, PhD, Diann Eley, PhD, Tobias Wilson, Candidate BSc, Greg Canning, MMed, Jeffrey Keir, MBBS, Ian McColl, FACD, and David Wilkinson, DSc

Background: Dermatoscopy improves accuracy of melanoma diagnosis, but the impact of subspecialization in skin cancer practice among general practitioners on melanoma diagnostic accuracy is not known.

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Webserver Upgrade

Thursday, 08 March 2012 12:00

The SCARD webserver has been upgraded recently and version 4 fully operational. Some members may experience connection warnings when accessing the audit from older bookmarks.

The correct address for the SCARD system is https://scard.skincanceraudit.com