Doctor who spent career researching melanoma dies from the disease after spotting changes to a mole on her neck

Source: The Telegraph, February 2020

A doctor who spent her career investigating the causes and treatment options for melanoma has died from the disease after noticing changes to a mole on her neck.

Dr Sharon Hutchinson, who worked as a postdoctoral melanoma researcher at the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), was diagnosed with an aggressive form of the deadly skin cancer last January.

Despite undergoing two different types of therapy, the cancer spread around her body, and she died in late December at the Highland Hospice, in Inverness, surrounded by her family.