Zara Thomas never thought she'd be told she had cancer at the age of just 28. Being quite pale skinned she knew she had many moles, but when one on her stomach kept changing and scabbing over she decided to visit her GP.
A few weeks after getting the mole removed, at her follow-up appointment a month later she was given the devastating news that she had melanoma - the most serious type of skin cancer. Zara was also told she would need a further operation to check her lymph nodes.
"I went from initially thinking I had eczema to undergoing intensive surgery," she recalled. "Thankfully tests on my lymph nodes came back clear and after having five more moles removed over the next five years, I was discharged during the Covid pandemic." Here are the signs of skin cancer that none of us should ignore.
