Sabrina's story - "Your newsletter may have saved my life"

Sabrina’s GP removed the spot the fol­low­ing day as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure. ​“She didn’t think it was any­thing sin­is­ter at the time,” says Sab­ri­na, ​“but it was lat­er deter­mined that the spot was in fact a nodu­lar melanoma, just over 1mm thick. I have since had a wide local exci­sion per­formed and last week was noti­fied that no fur­ther trace of melanoma was found in the excised area. Fur­ther mon­i­tor­ing and lymph checks will be car­ried out, but that’s all that is required.”

​“Your newslet­ter may have lit­er­al­ly saved my life. I’m 43 years old and have such a strong fam­i­ly his­to­ry — so you can imag­ine the angst this has caused my fam­i­ly, but less so giv­en that it was detect­ed ear­ly. I don’t know what’s around the cor­ner but I cer­tain­ly know it’s a lot bet­ter than may have oth­er­wise been had I not received this infor­ma­tion. Thank you – to say I’m extreme­ly grate­ful is an understatement.”

Thank you Sab­ri­na for shar­ing your sto­ry and we’re so glad to hear our newslet­ter made a dif­fer­ence. And a reminder to any­one else with a mole or spot that is new, chang­ing or sim­ply doesn’t look right, don’t chance it — get it pro­fes­sion­al­ly mole check or skin check as soon as pos­si­ble. It may turn out to be noth­ing to wor­ry about … or it may just save your life.

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Have a mole that’s wor­ry­ing you? Check out our arti­cle on the ABCDE and EFG rules of skin can­cer. If you have a skin can­cer sto­ry you’d like to share to inspire oth­ers, please email us.