Sunburnt – surviving skin cancer
Source: Council News, February 2025
After living an average Aussie life playing sport, spending languid days on the beach, and falling in love with ocean swimming, Anne Gately was diagnosed with a melanoma in 2010. The melanoma was removed and test results confirmed the cancer had not spread.
Then, in 2018, after experiencing pain in her shoulder, she had a bone scan and discovered she had Stage IV melanoma. Gately was given, at best, two years to live, and soon after the devastating diagnosis began an immunotherapy course.
Ms Gately said that just over three months later, she learned the treatment had worked.