Doctors save young Oliver after melanoma scare
Source: BUNDABERGNOW, April 2023
A local doctor’s surgery is raising awareness about melanoma in children after 13-year-old Oliver Iacuzzi was the second young person to be diagnosed with skin cancer since they opened in 2019.
Northstar Medical Centre’s Dr Hussain Anjum and registrar Dr M. Zeeshan Aftab were both shocked to find a suspicious mole on the side of Oliver’s neck was in fact a sinister skin cancer, but their quick medical treatment may have saved the life of the local teenager.
Melanoma is a type of skin cancer that develops in the skin cells called melanocytes and usually occurs on the parts of the body that have been overexposed to the sun.