Melanoma: Canadian shares her cancer survival story [Video]

Mary Lynn LeBlanc first noticed a mole on her left shoulder about seven years ago.

At first, doctors didn’t find anything worrying about it. She said the mole didn’t have any distinguishing features. Initially about the size of a penny, around 2019, she noticed it looked different and grew. It was round with bumpy edges. The top part was reddish-brown.

“I call it going rogue,” the 70-year-old retired teacher from London, Ont., said in a video interview with CTVNews.ca. “It didn’t hurt, but it was irritating because there was a little bit of a piece, like a skin tag, that was there. It had changed a little bit and I needed it to be looked at.”

Since she was new to the city and didn’t have a family doctor, she went to a nearby walk-in clinic.

The dermatologist did a biopsy and she was diagnosed with nodular melanoma, a less common …