It was 10pm when Debbie Tait opened the door to find a grim faced family doctor, who had come to tell the family their 10-year-old son had melanoma - the youngest person in the country to be diagnosed.
Three years later Bridge Pa teenager Jacob Tait, is like any other young teenage boy - he loves to surf, ride his BMX and head to the beach. But at the time, life was put on hold when he tested positive for the aggressive form of skin cancer.
"We got Jacob up out of bed, he came in and the doctor was nearly in tears," Debbie says. "The first thing he asked was whether he was going to die, but the doctor couldn't answer him.
"No one believed it, [the mole sample] was sent to four different pathologists, because they thought it couldn't be true."
The family were in shock and the sport mad youngster, was quickly booked into a specialist. Two days later he was on an operating table, having more skin and tissue removed from the affected area on his left upper thigh.