Premium Content
Just before his 46th birthday in 2014, Lyell Duffy was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma.
The Capricornia Correction Centre prison guard and keen fisherman’s biopsy results came back as metastatic, but the melanoma was nowhere to be seen: it might have been under a nail, on the scalp, or under the skin.
Mr Duffy, husband and father of three, died nine weeks after his diagnosis.
Not-for-profit Melanoma Institute Australia is calling on all Australians to join its melanoma March campaign to raise awareness and funds to combat one of Australia’s biggest killers.
This year is the 10th anniversary of its national Melanoma March campaign.
A man has revealed how he has spent the last 17 years fighting skin cancer - and getting his dodgy looking mole checked sooner could have prevented him from more than a decade of excruciating pain and countless invasive surgeries.
If Jason Sprott, 48, could he would go back to 2003 - before he ever got diagnosed with skin cancer - and tell his younger self to get the mole on the back of his neck checked. I was being ignorant and didn t take it seriously enough, if I could go back I would get it taken out as soon as I saw a change, he told Daily Mail Australia.
Feeling âso luckyâ to be alive after receiving new melanoma treatment
Weâre sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later.
Dismiss
Save
Normal text size
Advertisement
After losing a cousin to melanoma and being diagnosed with stage three of the same cancer, Sandra Moore feels lucky to be alive three years after receiving a potentially breakthrough treatment.
A new study published on Tuesday in the peer-reviewed medical journal
Nature Medicine has shown that a short course of immunotherapy drug treatment before surgery is effective in preventing the deadly spread of the disease in melanoma patients who are at high risk of the cancer recurring.