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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Shaheena Uddin

‘A stranger told me to check a mole on my back for skin cancer - she saved my life’

A woman who survived skin cancer is searching for the stranger who saved her life by warning her to get her back mole checked out by a doctor.

Emma Wigmore, 50, from Chelmsford in Essex, was enjoying a summer’s day on the South Bank, in central London, with her friends in June 2025, when she had a chance encounter with an off-duty dermatologist who noticed a “worrying” mole on her back.

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