Australian of the Year 2024: pioneering melanoma researchers Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer named as winners
by Daisy Dumas from World news | The Guardian on (#6J46P)
The scientists are credited with saving thousands of lives with their work on skin cancer and called on advertising to stop glamourising' tanning
One of the pioneering melanoma researchers named Australian of the Year gave has given an emotionally charged speech about his own devastating cancer diagnosis and told the audience I don't want to die".
Prof Richard Scolyer and his research partner Prof Georgina Long - who were presented with the Australian of the Year 2024 in Canberra on Thursday night - are credited with saving the lives of thousands of Australians whose diagnoses of skin cancer would once have proven fatal but are now largely curable.
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