Skin Cancer Warning From Alan Jones

Sun Herald

Sunday April 16, 2006

By RACHEL BROWNE

BROADCASTER Alan Jones has warned Australians to undergo regular skin cancer checks after he underwent surgery on his arm then spent 10 days in "God's waiting room".

The 2GB breakfast host was admitted to St Vincent's Hospital at the beginning of this month after his surgeon told him May would be too late to operate.

Surgeons removed a cancerous growth from his arm and grafted the wound with skin taken from his thigh.

"I came out of hospital straight away to go into work the next day, and in the middle of the night I woke up in a pool of blood," Jones told Channel Nine's Today show.

"The whole thing had fallen apart. So I went straight back to hospital. I thought it was just a bit of an operation. And you tend to dismiss all these things as being minor, but at the end of the day it wasn't. So I was in God's waiting room for about 10 days."

While Jones has been given the all clear by doctors and intends to return to work again on Tuesday, he said all Australians must be vigilant against skin cancer.

"I'd always put stuff on from age eight, all over my face and my neck," he said. "But I never did anything about my arms or the top of my hands. And that's where the problems have come."

© 2006 Sun Herald

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