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Piers Morgan thanks viewer for spotting dangerous blemish on Good Morning Britain

‘I am living testament to actually getting it checked because you told me to’

Sabrina Barr
Wednesday 10 January 2018 12:12 GMT
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Piers Morgan interviews women who 'saved his life'

Piers Morgan has publicly thanked the viewer who spotted a dangerous blemish on his chest during a segment on Good Morning Britain.

Gillian Nuttall, CEO and founder of Melanoma UK, noticed that Morgan had an unusual mark on his chest while watching his ITV documentary Serial Killers.

Nuttall decided to reach out to Morgan to advise him to have it checked, potentially saving his life in the process.

“As the camera panned into you I just noticed it, and it just, something alarmed me about it,” Nuttall told Morgan and Susanna Reid during the breakfast talk show.

“It just didn’t look right, it looked uneven to me.”

Nuttall had Morgan’s email address due to previous correspondence and so chose to reach out to him to ask whether the mark had been assessed by a medical professional.

Nuttall isn’t medically qualified. However, she founded Melanoma UK following the death of a close friend to the skin cancer.

Morgan proceeded to visit a dermatologist. The doctor removed the blemish immediately and revealed that it could have turned cancerous within a matter of months.

“Gillian Nuttall, you were my saviour,” he told his eagle-eyed viewer.

“I am living testament to actually getting it checked because you told me to and I’m very grateful to you for that.”

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Melanoma is a form of skin cancer, which develops from skin cells called melanocytes.

Cancer Research UK advises that you should have moles checked if you notice them getting bigger, changing shape, changing colour, if they’re not symmetrical, if they feel itchy or painful, if they start to bleed or if they look inflamed.

The most common place to find melanomas is on the back for men and on the legs for women. However, in rare circumstances, melanoma can occur in the eye.

Morgan and Reid also spoke to Joanne Morgan during the interview, a woman who had previously worked with Morgan while running the CNN makeup team in London.

Joanne suffers from ocular melanoma, a rare form of melanoma that affects around 450 to 600 people in the UK every year.

Doctors discovered a tumour behind Joanne’s left eye after she noticed abnormalities with her vision.

Nuttall and Joanne both pleaded with viewers to be vigilant with their health.

Nuttall has advised that people should check their skin for any changes every four to six weeks, while Joanne has recommended that everyone should visit an optician at least every 18 months to two years.

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