Overview

• The 44-year-old posted a photo on Instagram on August 27 confirming a cancerous growth was cut from his nose and warning that "skin cancer is real."
• Multiple reports describe this as his sixth procedure connected to recurrent skin cancers first identified in 2006.
• Clarke credited early detection in his message and expressed gratitude to specialist plastic surgeon Dr. Bish Soliman in Sydney.
• He has undergone several prior removals, including a basal cell carcinoma on his chest in 2023 and lesions from his forehead and face.
• Coverage places his update in Australia’s broader skin-cancer burden, citing Cancer Council data that about two in three people will develop some form by age 70 and emphasizing routine screening.