ONE Ambervale man is on a mission to make a difference. Jay Allen hopes to get 1000 signatures on his petition to ban solariums after he was diagnosed with melanoma cancer in 2008. He has written a letter to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a bid to have the sunbeds banned but hasn't received a reply…
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Jay on a mission to ban solariums
Posted February 18, 2010
Victims of sun worship
Posted February 7, 2010
Melanoma Patients Australia - 3rd Annual Gala Dinner March 2010
Posted February 5, 2010
Melanoma Patients Australia’s 3rd Annual 2010 Gala Dinner
An Evening of Pure Indulgence
Friday 5th March 2010
The Grand Ballroom, Hillstone St Lucia, Carawa Street, St Lucia
Arrive 6.30pm for 7pm, till Midnight
Tickets $150 per person or Tables of 10 $1,400
* Music by the Gerard McFadden Trio
Rules on Solariums Tightened
Posted February 4, 2010
Solariums Ignoring New Laws
Posted January 20, 2010
Watch the ABC News story from 17 Jan 2010. Jay Allen was interviewed about how solarium operators are not complying with new laws that were introduced. 87 of 89 solariums audited since September 2009 failed to meet new standards.
Click link to watch story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/video…
Solariums flout law after melanoma death
Posted January 17, 2010
CAROLINE MARCUS
January 17, 2010
"Sometimes I'm more tanned in winter than I am in summer" ... 28-year-old Claudine Gibson is a regular solarium user. Photo: Jacky Ghossein
Almost all Sydney solariums are flouting laws introduced by the State Government after melanoma victim Clare Oliver's deat…
RPA - Where are they now?
Posted January 7, 2010
If you missed Jay Allen on the RPA Where are They Now? program, please click videos below to watch.
Part 1 & Part 2
Melanoma Patients Australia Skin Cancer Awareness Day
Posted December 20, 2009
'Melanoma Patients Australia Skin Cancer Awareness Day'
"Melanoma is Deadly Serious"
Sunday 20th Dec, 9 am - 3 pm, Bondi Beach Grassed area Opposite Roscoe St Mall
What a great day! We raised skin cancer awareness, donations to Melanoma Patients Australia, and more importantly over 300 signature…
Empowering Young Girls Worldwide
Posted December 16, 2009
Solariums and Skin Cancer
The SunSmart website states that Australia, the 'sunburnt country' has one of the “highest rates of skin cancer in the world” with at least two in three Australians being diagnosed with a form of skin cancer by the age of 70. In one day “over 1,000 Australians are treated f…
Sunbed Court Battle
Posted December 15, 2009
Gym user Jay Allen claims he was encouraged to use sun beds by a leading fitness company. Before long he developed a melanoma and now he is taking the fitness company to court, seeking $1M in damages.
Jay Allen on Channel 9's A Current Affair - Dec 2009
| Gym user Jay Allen claims he was encouraged to use sun beds by a leading fitness company. Before long he developed a melanoma and now he is taking the fitness company to court, seeking $1M in damages. |
Jay Allen on Channel 9's A Current Affair - Dec 2009
Survivor's crusade against fitness giant over melanoma
Posted December 11, 2009
SURVIVING melanoma might have been one thing, but Jay Allen is now set for the fight of his life.
He is taking on Fitness First for more than $1 million damages, claiming their sun beds caused the cancer that nearly robbed his three children of their father.
Mr Allen, who has launched action in…
Mum’s solarium warning
Posted December 10, 2009
06 OCT 09 @ 12:19PM BY VANESSA BRADBURY
TO find yourself awake in hospital when your last memory is of going to bed at home is a shock.
So imagine discovering you are in hospital because you had a fit nd the doctors found aggressive melanomas in your lungs, liver and heart.
That is exactly what hap…
National Shades Day
Posted December 9, 2009
NSW MPA Support Group
Posted November 23, 2009
MPA Support Group met on the 15th November.
(Front Row) Lyn Martin, Helen Ross, Jay Allen, Judy Mulcahy, Janine and Jaxon Allen
(Back Row) Adrian McHarg, Harry Ross, Lesley & Michael Heffernon
Canberra visit for campaigner
Posted November 18, 2009
Jay Allen is spreading the word about his anti-solarium campaign, visiting Michael Bryce patron of Melanoma Patients Australia at a reception in Canberra last Monday.
The Ambarvale man is in the centre of a $1million compensation lawsuit against Fitness First in Campbelltown and Carlingford, as repo…
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