Melanoma Is The Most Common Cancer For Young Australians. That’s Cooked.
Source: Junkee, December 2022
It’s time to flock to the beach, sip on Aperol spritz, and pretend we are somewhere in Sicily — The White Lotus perhaps?
For most of us, though, Sicily remains a distant dream: we’ll be in Australia, home to the highest melanoma rates in the world, a cancer that most commonly affects young Australians in their twenties. Enter, Samantha.
Samantha’s Experience With Melanoma
“I was that person who was covered up at the beach with towels and no one asked me to put sunscreen on their body because they knew they would never get a tan [with my rigorous application],” Samantha Marshall tells Junkee.