I Couldn't Get Enough of the Sun . . . Until I Got Skin Cancer15- Year-Old's Story Is a Stark Warning of the Dangers of Allowing Kids to Sunbathe ; a Leading Cancer Charity has Warned That Today's Children Are Three Times More Likely Than Their Grandparents to Develop Skin Cancer, and One 15-Year-Old Girl From East Kilbride Knows More Than Most the Dangers of the Sun. Here, Pamela Jeffrey Tells Marianne Taylor How Her Love of Sunbathing Left Her Fighting Cancer.

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LIKE most other girls in her year at school, teenager Pamela Jeffrey will be spending her Easter holiday studying hard for her Standard Grade exams and carefully choosing the Highers she hopes will one day get her into university.

But for Pamela, a bright and articulate 15-year-old from East Kilbride, things could easily have turned out very differently.

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I Couldn't Get Enough of the Sun . . . Until I Got Skin Cancer15- Year-Old's Story Is a Stark Warning of the Dangers of Allowing Kids to Sunbathe ; a Leading Cancer Charity has Warned That Today's Children Are Three Times More Likely Than Their Grandparents to Develop Skin Cancer, and One 15-Year-Old Girl From East Kilbride Knows More Than Most the Dangers of the Sun. Here, Pamela Jeffrey Tells Marianne Taylor How Her Love of Sunbathing Left Her Fighting Cancer.

In October last year, the Hunter High pupil found out she had a malignant melanoma - otherwise known as skin cancer.

Shock took hold as Pamela, her parents Elizabeth and Graeme and sister Elizabeth, 19, waited anxiously to hear how advanced the disease was.

Thankfully, a shoulder operation to remove ...

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