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.