TRANSPORT Minister Dean Nalder grew up on a farm in an era when “no-one wore sunscreen”, and now he has been diagnosed with melanoma.
Mr Nalder said a routine skin check had uncovered the melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, which first appeared as a black mole on his back.
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