Program: Professor Richard Scolyer: Melanoma expert turned brain cancer patient

Joint Australian of the year Professor Richard Scolyer has spent his medical career saving the lives of people with melanoma.

Then suddenly last year, the life he had to save was his own.

A tumour was discovered in Richard’s brain and the diagnosis was terminal.

So Richard and his colleagues decided to try something completely radical and experimental.

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Brainstorm is published by Allen & Unwin.

Brindha Shivalingam is the surgeon responsible for Richard's neurosurgery. Listen to her interview here.