Fiona, 57, of Scotstounhill, Glasgow, spent her formative years holidaying with her grandparents on Skye.
And she admitted: “I didn’t have any protection whatsoever.”
Decades later, the sun exposure came home to roost when a mole on her ankle turned out to be a malignant melanoma.
Poignantly, she said: “I want people to learn from my mistakes. It is something which means the world to me.”
Fiona has battled the cancer for seven years with a variety of groundbreaking treatments. Through her involvement with MASScot (Melanoma Action and Support Scotland) had meetings with the Scottish Medicines Consortium to persuade them to licence some immunotherapy drugs for use in Scotland – a campaign which was very successful.
Her husband Graeme, 51, an advocate, said: “The mole was excised. They did a wide excision to hopefully get rid of it.
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