Australia’s Skin Check Truck and our ambassador Michael Clarke AO saved the life of a year 7, 12 year old student

Australia’s Skin Check Truck along with our national ambassador Michael Clarke AO saved the life of a year 7, 12 year old student.

After we gave an educational presentation to all year 7 and 8 students at The Scots College Bellevue Hill including Michael Clarke AO who drove home powerful messages to the students about how he should have been a lot more #sunsmart growing up playing cricket and should of had more #skinchecks

The students then all lined up venturing into the truck to have their skin checked by the experts at Mole Map 🔬🔬

A year 7, 12 year old student was referred to his GP for a biopsy for a suspect-looking mole on his back. Pathology results come back a few weeks later as an early-stage melanoma in situ.

Also that day, the school gardener came in to get his skin checked and another melanoma was found after a biopsy. A week before that we had the truck at The Scots College Dolls Point, NSW in which a year 8 prep student had a melanoma found on his back after a biopsy as well.

This mobile Skin Check Clinic continues to save lives, we are now booked out until September 2024, and are inundated daily by communities across Australia crying out for a truck visit and this further motivates our charity to continue raising funds for a second skin check truck to service our fellow Australians.

We will not stop doing what we do for all those affected and sadly lost to this horrible disease, those fighting, as well as the family and friends left behind after losing a loved one.

A shout out to 12-year-old Tom Beaumont and dad Dean,  who organised all of the above for his fellow students, and staff, and who also fundraised with his mates as a part of our Mission Melanoma campaign.

Please if you have not done so in the last 12 months #getaskincheck