PHOTO: Lionel and Denise McGuire (centre) with their daughters Carin McGuire (left) and Sally Everett (right), in happier times before his passing in late 2021. (Photo supplied by Sally Everett)
A new national initiative launched this month by the Australian Skin Cancer Foundation (ASCF) aims to make the journey travelled by melanoma sufferers and their loved ones a little easier to navigate.
“Melanoma Mates” aims to bring together people who are on the same journey so that they have a mate to chat to or a shoulder to lean on, said Sally Everett, an ASCF director.
It’s a mission close to the heart of the Narromine resident and 2023 Citizen of the Year, who lost her father Lionel McGuire to melanoma in November 2021.
The national initiative is for anyone currently navigating their way through a diagnosis and treatment or have fought a melanoma or other skin cancer, or who has lost a loved one to melanoma…