{"id":75162,"date":"2025-12-22T04:04:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/i-found-out-i-had-skin-cancer-after-bbc-radio-derby-campaign\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:04:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:04:54","slug":"i-found-out-i-had-skin-cancer-after-bbc-radio-derby-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/i-found-out-i-had-skin-cancer-after-bbc-radio-derby-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I found out I had skin cancer after BBC Radio Derby campaign’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elizabeth Roe<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Elizabeth Roe said BBC Radio Derby’s Sun Safe campaign gave her the push to get her skin checked out<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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“It was the best Christmas present to be told the biopsy had come back clear and the cancer was gone – it was marvellous.”<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Roe kept putting off a “little niggle” she had with a mark on her left shin. <\/p>\n
But after listening to BBC Radio Derby’s coverage of their Sun Safe events back in June – part of a campaign in memory of presenter Colin Bloomfield, who lost his life to melanoma in 2015 – she decided to act.<\/p>\n
Mrs Roe, 75, from Spondon in Derby, was later told she had skin cancer but it was caught early enough and received the all clear after a procedure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Mrs Roe was listening to Andy Twigge on BBC Radio Derby’s breakfast show, who was talking about free skin checks. <\/p>\n
They formed part of the station’s Sun Safe events as part of a campaign in memory of presenter Colin Bloomfield, who lost his life to melanoma in 2015.<\/p>\n
“I thought it was an ideal opportunity about a little niggle I had about a skin problem – you put these things to the back of your mind,” she said.<\/p>\n
“I said to myself this needs to get sorted and there were no excuses to go and see the specialists to get the answers to those niggles.” <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n
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BBC Radio Derby presenter Colin Bloomfield lost his life to melanoma in 2015<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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Mrs Roe attended a skin check event in Chaddesden Park back in May and was referred to hospital for the removal of a skin legion on her left shin the following month. <\/p>\n
The test results came back with confirmation of cancer and a second procedure was booked in to take away more skin to see if it had spread. <\/p>\n
But those second set of results returned the all clear and the 75-year-old now describes herself as “one of the lucky ones”. <\/p>\n
Mrs Roe is now urging people to get their skin checked if they feel something does not look right.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
‘Winning the lottery’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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“It’s only due to Radio Derby and the Colin Bloomfield campaign, I owe them all so much, I am eternally grateful. <\/p>\n
“I could have still been sitting there thinking I needed to get it checked out.<\/p>\n
“I did it, I went through the procedures, although scary at the time, [getting the all clear] is better than winning the lottery.”<\/p>\n
In partnership with the charity Skcin, 15,000 primary school children received sun safe lessons and thousands of outdoor workers were offered sun safety training.<\/p>\n
More than 600 people attended skin checks across Derbyshire and 120 of those were referred for further treatment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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