article_snippet: At the time, there was a campaign about the importance of early detection of skin cancer.
article_snippet: freckle’ was the most dangerous form of skin cancer
article_snippet: — a malignant melanoma, which was at a stage where a skin cancer is liable to spread to the rest of the body.
article_snippet: a skin cancer had been caught, probably just in time.
article_snippet: But The researchers still miss two out of three melanomas, according to dermatologists at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre in a study published in 2013 in the journal JAMA Dermatology.
article_snippet: This is very dangerous when a lesion can grow deeper and spread to other organs within a matter of months,’ says lead researcher and skin cancer specialist Dr Laura Ferris.
article_snippet: It wasn't until two years later that Sian (pictured) discovered that the mole was in fact the most dangerous form of skin cancer .
highlights_snippet: Two years later, Sian Gibson found out that the freckle was actually skin cancer .