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Mum issues sunbed warning after teenage son diagnosed with skin cancer

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A Scots mum has issued a stark warning over the use of sun beds and the importance of SPF after her son was diagnosed with stage 4 skin cancer.

Charlie Watson, 19, from Lochmaben in Dumfries and Galloway, was diagnosed with nodular malignant melanoma after a mole appeared on his abdomen last summer.

The teenager, who is a semi-professional footballer, noticed the irregularity on his skin after returning home from a boys' holiday in Magaluf.The mole grew around one inch in size before it peeled and fell from his body.

Charlie, who plays for Queen of South FC Reserves, had the remainder of the mole removed from his body in October 2023.But when results came back from further lab examination, the teenager was told he had nodular malignant melanoma - a dangerous and fast-growing type of skin cancer.Recounting her son's devastating diagnosis, Charlie's mum, Amanda Woods, 41, told the Record: "It came as a shock to all of us.

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