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A sunbed addict given a "year to live" after getting cancer wants to warn others that skin cancer "isn't just a mole being removed". Jak Howell was just 21 in June 2021 when he discovered he had stage three advanced melanoma. The cancer had spread dramatically from a patch of skin on his back through to his groin and chest in the space of just two months. At the time, Jak was using sunbeds up to five times a week for 18 minutes - a habit he had from the age of 16. Two surgeries to remove tumours on his lower back and leg were not successful. He went through a year of immunotherapy and was given the all clear in December 2022. Reflecting on his experience, Jak wants to raise awareness of the "later effects of mental health having cancer". The content creator, from Swansea, Wales, said: "It's kind of surreal. I speak to my friends and say it almost feels like it didn't happen. "When they told me the surgery hadn't worked and the last [immunotherapy] treatment was a final push, I'd been told if that didn’t work I’d have a year to live. "No doctor could make sense of how it was so severe at my age. "I was asked 'did you use sunbeds?'. "I said 'yes, quite a lot'. "Doctors then said 'we can't physically put it down to that but it is 99.999% chance that is the reason it's so severe'. "As soon as I knew that I knew that I had to get message out about using sunbeds." Jak was at home during lockdown in April 2021 when he discovered a "really itchy" patch of skin on his back which began to bleed. He said: "I emailed my GP just before I left for work because you couldn't do a face-to-face appointment due to lockdown, and by the time I got to work they had replied and said 'I don't want to see you, go straight to the hospital'. "For me that was immediate alarm bells." Jak had a biopsy taken at Singleton Hospital, Swansea, and 10 days later results showed it was cancerous. He said: "At first, I didn't expect it to be anything seen people with melanoma have it cut off and move on. "It snowballed from there and got bigger and bigger." Despite receiving the all clear after his immunotherapy treatments were a success, Jak's mental health declined. He said: "Recently more than ever I've been trying to push the late effects of mental health having cancer. "That's another reason I'd love to push the stopping of using sunbeds. "I think for years I've tried to tell people 'don't use sunbeds' but I want to push the message now that skin cancer isn't just a mole being removed, …
