Dr Hayden Snow

Hayden Snow is a surgeon specialising in the management of soft tissue sarcoma and melanoma. Hayden completed his surgical training at Western Health in Melbourne and then undertook a fellowship in Sarcoma and Melanoma Surgery 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 tumour streams.

Hayden has a particular interest in regional treatments of soft tissue 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 advanced tumours of the limbs is effective at preventing amputation 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 with other researchers particularly in the fields of ILP and retroperitoneal sarcoma.