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Your Story Series: Meet Nigel
I travel the world a lot with my job and I saw something on my shoulder. I really didn't think anything of it and so left it for a month....
Your Story Series: Meet Nigel
I travel the world a lot with my job and I saw something on my shoulder. I really didn't think anything of it and so left it for a month. Only to find it still there. I went to the doctors again not thinking anything other than a mosquito bite or some tropical bite. Luckily I caught it just in time. The one thing I will say is go with your gut feeling.

Your Story Series: Meet Des
I discovered I had a serious skin cancer problem in 2009. My attitude towards sun cancer is to take extreme care especially if you have fair skin. The smallest spot...
Your Story Series: Meet Des
I discovered I had a serious skin cancer problem in 2009. My attitude towards sun cancer is to take extreme care especially if you have fair skin. The smallest spot can herald a melanoma. Complete cover is the only real protection.

Your Story Series: Meet Natalia
In my 20s I can remember laying in the sun, hour after hour, waiting for my timer to go off to alert me to flip over, like a piece of...
Your Story Series: Meet Natalia
In my 20s I can remember laying in the sun, hour after hour, waiting for my timer to go off to alert me to flip over, like a piece of bacon roasting under a heat lamp in a diner. My mother, a survivor of melanoma and basal cell carcinoma, impressed upon me the importance of changing my attitude toward the sun and protecting myself.

Your Story Series: Meet Blair
I am 60+ and really enjoy outdoors and gardening. I have a fairly rare inherited skin condition called DSAP (Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis) that started in my 30's. I use 50+ sunscreen...
Your Story Series: Meet Blair
I am 60+ and really enjoy outdoors and gardening. I have a fairly rare inherited skin condition called DSAP (Disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis) that started in my 30's. I use 50+ sunscreen most days and try to avoid the sun in the hottest part of the day, as well as wearing UV clothing if I'm spending time outside.

Your Story Series: Meet Helen
I have had spots burnt off my face hands arms since I was 22 years old, but the big wake up call was 10 years ago when I was diagnosed...
Your Story Series: Meet Helen
I have had spots burnt off my face hands arms since I was 22 years old, but the big wake up call was 10 years ago when I was diagnosed with Melanoma. Since then I have had 9 other skin cancer removed.

Your Story Series: Meet Diane
Nowadays I am proactive with my sun protection. It's never too late. Now every day I wear my 'uniform' consisting of a Solbari polo shirt and legionnaire hat. I have 3 tops which...
Your Story Series: Meet Diane
Nowadays I am proactive with my sun protection. It's never too late. Now every day I wear my 'uniform' consisting of a Solbari polo shirt and legionnaire hat. I have 3 tops which I rotate!

Your Story Series: Meet Jacob
I learned about my skin melanoma 3 years ago. It was just a small mark on my leg. I ignored it completely and paid no attention to it. I would...
Your Story Series: Meet Jacob
I learned about my skin melanoma 3 years ago. It was just a small mark on my leg. I ignored it completely and paid no attention to it. I would jog every day during my lunch break a couple of kms to a nearby gym. I couldn't be bothered to wear any sun protection or sun screen for such a short jog.

Your Story Series: Meet Joy-Marie
Sun protection is absolutely necessary these days. As the damage is evident from years and years of lying in the sun covered in baby oil trying to get a sun tan....
Your Story Series: Meet Joy-Marie
Sun protection is absolutely necessary these days. As the damage is evident from years and years of lying in the sun covered in baby oil trying to get a sun tan. All I got was blisters and freckles and a lot of skin damage.

Your Story Series: Meet Elizabeth
I arrived in Australia aged 13 after living in Europe for 10 years. When I arrived in Australia I didn't know anything about sun protection. I rarely wore a hat...
Your Story Series: Meet Elizabeth
I arrived in Australia aged 13 after living in Europe for 10 years. When I arrived in Australia I didn't know anything about sun protection. I rarely wore a hat as a teenager and didn't understand the importance of sunscreen and other protective measures I should be taking whilst living in Sydney.

Your Story Series: Meet Heather
I became ill at the age of 30, in the 1970’s with fatigue, joint pain, fever, and a painful raised rash on my legs. After a year plus of blood...
Your Story Series: Meet Heather
I became ill at the age of 30, in the 1970’s with fatigue, joint pain, fever, and a painful raised rash on my legs. After a year plus of blood work, x-rays, and finally a biopsy of the leg rash it was confirmed that I had systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE). Following the diagnosis of SLE, I started looking for other options for sun protection in Canada, and there were not many options in the 70’s and 80’s.

Your Story Series: Meet Daina
I love cycling to work and on weekends. Just because I'm doing outdoor activity, doesn't mean I can't protect my skin from sun damage. Sun protection is very important to me...
Your Story Series: Meet Daina
I love cycling to work and on weekends. Just because I'm doing outdoor activity, doesn't mean I can't protect my skin from sun damage. Sun protection is very important to me as I care about my skin, in particular when we age we definitely see the damage we have done.

Your Story Series: Meet Kenneth
I am a 72 year old, active outdoors New Zealander. Have had one melanoma removed, I searched the internet for long sleeved golf shirts and found the Solbari brand.
Your Story Series: Meet Kenneth
I am a 72 year old, active outdoors New Zealander. Have had one melanoma removed, I searched the internet for long sleeved golf shirts and found the Solbari brand.

Your Story Series: Meet Larissa
My 67 year old mother has had endless skin cancers taken off her with the worst one being a basal cell carcinoma which was on her chest. The little lump...
Your Story Series: Meet Larissa
My 67 year old mother has had endless skin cancers taken off her with the worst one being a basal cell carcinoma which was on her chest. The little lump was only a millimetre in diameter but it had spread across her entire chest underneath the surface. She thankfully is fine but was told by her surgeon to never get her skin exposed to the sun again.

Your Story Series: Meet Sharon
Aged 67, I would describe myself as an active older person. My husband and I live on our yacht, currently based near Newcastle, NSW. Our biggest outdoor activity is long...
Your Story Series: Meet Sharon
Aged 67, I would describe myself as an active older person. My husband and I live on our yacht, currently based near Newcastle, NSW. Our biggest outdoor activity is long distance bicycle touring. Over the past nine years we have ridden thousands of kilometres in over twenty countries. On our rides, I am out in the sun all day.

Your Story Series: Meet Josefina
I'm a 2-year-old happy baby who loves to play outdoors. I was born overseas; and more than a year ago I travelled 12,000 km to come to Australia and live...
Your Story Series: Meet Josefina
I'm a 2-year-old happy baby who loves to play outdoors. I was born overseas; and more than a year ago I travelled 12,000 km to come to Australia and live in this beautiful country. In Uruguay, there is no culture in relation to sun protection. Normally we protect ourselves from the cold or the wind, but not from the sun.