Hayden Snow is a surgeon specialising in the management of soft tissuetissue/the material that joins, holds up or surrounds inside body parts such as fat, muscle, ligaments and lining around joints sarcomacancer arising from bones and/or soft tissue and melanomaa type of cancer that develops from melanocytes, which are the cells that produce pigment generally in the skin (but can develop in other areas of the body). Hayden completed his surgical training at Western Health in Melbourne and then undertook a fellowship in Sarcoma and Melanoma Surgerytreatment involving removal of cancerous tissue and/or tumours and a margin of healthy tissue around it to reduce recurrence at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London, UK. After his fellowship, he continued at the Marsden as a consultant surgeon before returning to Melbourne to work at Peter MacCallum in the Sarcoma and Melanoma tumoura tissue mass that forms from groups of unhealthy cells streams.
Hayden has a particular interest in regional treatments of soft tissuea group of cells that work together to perform a function tumours and melanoma, having trained in the technique of Isolated Limb Perfusion (ILP) whilst working in the UK. He now leads Peter Mac’s limb perfusion service and is the only surgeon in Australia accredited to perform ILP with tumour necrosis factor-alpha. This important procedure in the management of patients with advancedat a late stage, far along tumours of the limbs is effective at preventing amputationcomplete or partial removal of a limb in many patients.
Hayden has also established the Electrochemotherapy (ECT) service at Peter Mac, the only institution in Victoria to offer this service. This procedure provides patients with a minimally-invasive alternative to complex surgery for some types of tumours.
Hayden has a strong interest in sustainability in healthcare and is the lead for the Theatre Sustainability Working Group and also sits on the hospital Sustainability Committee. He is involved in clinical research and collaborates internationally.
Location
305 Grattan Street, Melbourne VIC, Australia
