2024 has turned out to be something of an ordeal for the Royal Family, with the King, the Princess of Wales, and Sarah, Duchess of York all receiving treatment for cancer. Sarah Ferguson credits her sister with an intervention that turned out to have been a life-saver. She was diagnosed with malignant melanoma, a dangerous form of skin cancer, in January 2024, just a year after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis.
She confessed to having almost skipped the appointment with a skin specialist that resulted in a life-saving intervention. She told The Sun: "I had almost missed the appointment as I couldn't face a journey into central London on a hot summer's day and thought I would put it off." She added: "It was only when I mentioned this by chance to my sister Jane, who had called me from her home in Australia, that she went into bossy older sibling mode and insisted I went.
That check-up, and the treatment I underwent, saved my life." A spokesman for the Duchess explained that the cancerous moles had initially been spotted at the private King Edward VII hospital in London during surgery for breast cancer. He explained: ”Her dermatologist asked that several moles were removed and analysed at the same time as the duchess was undergoing reconstructive surgery following her mastectomy, and one of these has been identified as cancerous.
” Had it not been for that cancer surgery, her spokesman added, the dangerous moles might easily have been missed. He said: "She believes her ex.