Geelong’s Jenny Thulborn, 60, first discovered she had melanoma 30 years ago after the birth of her second child.
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The Spot sends a message to Australians about skin cancer and melanoma
Bristol Myers Squibb is proud to have partnered with La Roche-Posay, Ogilvy and Sculpture by the Sea on The Spot to highlight to Australians that prevention and early disease detection is the best way to tackle skin cancer and melanoma.
Watch the melanoma sculpture The Spot growing on Tamarama beach
The artwork The Spot, by Andrew Hankin, on Tamarama beach during the 2024 Sculpture by the Sea exhibition in Sydney, Australia.
The scientist who tested his revolutionary medicine on his own brain cancer: ‘It seemed worth it to give it a crack’
Richard Scolyer was fully engaged in the business of living when he suddenly received a death sentence. A person more alive would be hard to find. As an endurance athlete competing across the globe, he was in peak physical condition. As one of the world’s leading pathologists on melanoma whose pioneering research has saved thousands of lives, he was in demand. At 56, Prof Richard Scolyer was flying along. His life, he says, was “rich”. And then, on the morning of 20 May 2023, he found himself losing consciousness and convulsing on the floor in a hotel room in Poland, panicking and scared.