Professor Georgina Long, 2024’s Australian of the Year with fellow melanoma researcher Richard Scolyer, on life, death – and what young women need to know.
Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Georgina Long.
No. But my mother was in public health, so public health issues were a big thing for us. In the ’80s, there was the “Kiss a Non-Smoker, Enjoy the Difference” campaign. My parents gave each of their six kids a T-shirt with that slogan on it. The other big public health message at the time was, of course, “Slip, slop, slap”. Melanoma is Australia’s cancer; we have the highest incidence in the world. My drive is to make a difference.I focus on the resilience.
Only if we put our foot on the pedal with prevention, too. More than 95 per cent of skin melanomas in this country are caused by UV. We can achieve it if we push against the glamorisation of tanning and for sun safety in sports. At the same time, roughly 45 per cent of people with stage four melanoma will not survive. Which means a substantial proportion of the people you treat die.
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