Richard Scolyer didn’t expect to be still alive. Now he’s meeting the King
Source: The Sydney Morning Held, October 2024
Professor Richard Scolyer did not expect to be alive now.
When the joint Australian of the Year was diagnosed with brain cancer in May last year, he learnt that the median survival for patients with the condition was just 14 months. That gave him until July this year.
But the world-renowned melanoma pathologist is still well enough to be working, exercising and he and his fellow Australian of the Year, Professor Georgina Long, the two co-medical directors of Melanoma Institute Australia, will meet King Charles during his visit to Sydney next Tuesday.