Just before Charlie Davey’s 19th birthday, his mother, Andrea, noticed a mole on the left side of his neck had changed colour.
‘Mum dragged me to see our GP, who sent me for a biopsy,’ says Charlie. A week later he was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, the most aggressive and dangerous form of skin cancer.
‘It was scary, but it had been caught early,’ says Charlie. ‘I had the mole removed and apart from annual checks, I didn’t think about it too much for three years.’